Monthly Archives: November 2022

Twenty years after its release, it’s about time to acknowledge what has been obvious since the day it came out. Once upon a time, Peter Hedges, Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke, Oliver Platt, Isaiah Whitlock Jr. and Sean Hayes … Continue reading →

An iconic haute couture footwear brand’s origin story is told in sometimes inspiring strokes in “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” Luca Guadagnino’s story of the life and work of Salvatore Ferragamo. Fashionistas, fashion historians, film historians, modern shoe icon Manolo Blahnik, … Continue reading →

This looks good. Focus can be one of those “Witness Protection Program” distributors, movies you can never find largely because of anemic promotion budgets and efforts, but I’d love to see Dafoe in this guise.

As he approaches his 76th birthday in December, Steven Spielberg can safely be assumed to be in the “memoirs” stage of his life and celebrated career. But as a filmmaker always more comfortable with the language of cinema, it’d be … Continue reading →

A Mid December comic thriller. Could be cute. And violent.

There’s no shouting and very little pleading in “Safe Place,” Croatian writer, director and star Juraj Lerotić’s debut feature. That can be misleading, as the film is about a brother and his mother’s frantic efforts to keep a sibling and … Continue reading →

 The actor Rainn Wilson recently changed his name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson as a way of protesting America’s indifference to the growing climate crisis facing the planet. Young activist Greta Thunberg has devoted her life to challenging … Continue reading →

One of the bloodiest and most important struggles of World War II in the Pacific is given a loopy, ahistorical B-movie treatment with loopy, B-movie actors in “Battle for Saipan.“ It’s loosely based on the real-life “banzai charge” at the … Continue reading →

So, a fantasy parable about a world of earth, wind, fire and water, things do different as to be “Elemental,” living together, mixing and mingling and eventually getting along? Hard to get much of a bead on it based on … Continue reading →

The actor’s first duty in a movie that is plainly nobody’s idea of a “good choice” is to not let us know it’s her or his “only choice” or offer at the moment. Don’t embarrass yourself by looking bored or … Continue reading →