Daily Archives: December 15, 2022

Documentary Review: “Turn Every Page” celebrates a great biographer, his ever-patient editor and the history they’ve made together

A documentary, five years in the making, about the slow-footed race-against-time to finish an epic “three volume” biography of Lyndon Johnson’s fifth and final volume before the researcher/author and his editor pass away from very old age is nobody’s idea … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Indonesian Mayhem delivered by “The Big 4”

Wise and honorable is the action filmmaker who credits her or his fight choreographer right up front in the opening credits. That’s true in Hollywood, Seoul, Hong Kong or Jakarta, as today’s Around the World with Netflix offering proves. Director … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Another ultimate Weather Disaster? “Firenado”

Opens in January, VOD and DVD in Feb.

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Movie Preview: Adam Driver is a shipwrecked astronaut almost on his own in “65”

Well, at least they give away their big spoiler in the trailer. Future ordnance unleashed against T Rex? This is a rare straight up action pic for Driver, and looks very “Chariots of the Gods,” for those who remember the … Continue reading

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The Book Mark Rylance’s “Sully” is reading in between meals in “Bones and All?”

I was inspired to pick this up after seeing Sully’s copy in his van in the cannibalism romantic thriller “Bones and All.” What’s the meaning of this short story collection being something a roving diner on human flesh would keep … Continue reading

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