Daily Archives: March 23, 2023

Netflixable? A Taiwanese WhoDunIt? set in “The Post-Truth World”

A star high school pitcher who just signed to an American major league team’s farm system is convicted of killing his rich girlfriend, who wanted to come with him from Taiwan to the U.S. Years later, he busts out of … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Not-so-Super “Heroes” insist that “Smoking Causes Coughing”

The acquired taste that is French satirist and genre-spoofer Quentin Dupieux unleashes the unlikeliest superhero “avengers” of them all in “Smoking Causes Coughing,” a film that sends up comic book movies and society’s efforts to regulate or socially normalize “safety.” … Continue reading

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