Monthly Archives: November 2022

Long before there was “mumblecore,” the sudden discovery that movies could be about conversation and almost nothing else, there was the theatrical “two hander.” Plays like “Night, Mother” and “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” and “True West” … Continue reading →

Perhaps I was too hasty to write off Renaults. Mais oui? It’s also pretty obvious France has found its answer to Jason Statham. His name’s Alban Lenoir. Did you see “Lost Bullet?” Yeah. That putain de mère, right there. I … Continue reading →

Life in the city wasn’t working for them, so the Hayes family pulled up stakes and moved to “the mountain.” Here, there’s no “job” for mom or dad, no bus ride to school for their two daughters. “We make the … Continue reading →

You can hand it to director James Gray, who gave us “The Immigrant,” “Ad Astra” and “The Yards,” for presenting a portrait of a childhood which he himself seemed to make “troubled.” His autobiographical “Armageddon Time” will prove to be … Continue reading →

“One Piece Film: Red” practically redefines the phrase “eye candy” when it comes to Japanese anime. A colorful cornucopia that pushes the shadings palette, it’s a musical fantasy action adventure so stuffed with characters that you pretty much have to … Continue reading →

Not every “mystery thriller” needs to have much of a mystery about it to work. But none can get by without that “Eureka,” aka “Oh (snap)” moment. And in “The Good Nurse,” that’s a doozy. This true story, with some … Continue reading →

The band Lord Huron has produced, I guess, this trippy feature film inspired by their album “Vide Noir.” And for the record, the music’s pretty cool, kind of twangy “Twin Peaks” ethereal, unmoored in time, fitting for a pseudo-psychedelic film … Continue reading →

She’s a veteran of the Afghanistan occupation, recovering from problems physical and mental, finishing up physical therapy for one, taking “‘don’t shoot yourself in the head’ kind of medicine” for the other. He’s a sad-eyed mechanic with a prosthetic leg. … Continue reading →

The “Black Panther” movie in which we say goodbye to the character as he once was and the actor who played him might rightly be expected to be a journey through grief. But while Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” … Continue reading →