Daily Archives: December 5, 2022

The Irish do the gloom thing quite well. Poets and painters, novelists and filmmakers, they get their greys right and the grim earth tones of fall and can all but consume any notion of cheer and the Irish spring long … Continue reading →

The new Sight and Sound magazine “Greatest Films of All Time” list has gotten its once-a-decade updating. It’s the list that first enshrined “Citizen Kane,” that later critics/voters replaced with “Vertigo,” and so on, down the decades since 1952. And … Continue reading →

“My Name is Vendetta (Il mio nome è vendetta) ” is a properly blood-spattered Italian hitman thriller with a few loopy touches — and blunders — that mark it as a B-movie. Generic as it generally is, it’s worth a … Continue reading →

Israel’s bid for Best International Feature Oscar glory this year is a charming but slight drama about a group of women who take a filmmaking course in a community center in the Israeli city of Hadera. Eight women join a … Continue reading →

I’m getting a “Toy Story 3” vibe from this one. You?

Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva and Tobey Maguire, a Bowie riff backs a good on early Hollywood.