Monthly Archives: April 2023

I’m not a huge horror buff, fan or aficionado. But when I sit down to watch one I do like for it to be smart. “Clock” is a childbirth/”biological clock” thriller that has modern medicine playing God, The Holocaust and … Continue reading →

Harry Belafonte, who brought music from “The Islands” to the masses and helped integrate American pop music, film and television, an activist who never lost that passion for justice and equality, has died at the age of 96. He outlived … Continue reading →

Inutterably gorgeous and inexpressively sad, “The Eight Mountains” is an Italian journey of male self-discovery, a “Razor’s Edge” without a war, “Eat Pray Love” with a little less indulgence. Based on a novel by Paolo Cognetti, it wrestles with a … Continue reading →

Damn, this looks a LOT like “More Than a Game, the 2008 doc LeBron James participated in and produced. Buzz Bissinger of “Friday Night Lights” is involved this time, but… June 2. Maybe it’ll be more revealing.

Ben Milliken the actor more or less holds his own as a seemingly unkillable bouncer, drug mule and factotum for another Mexican Reina del Sur in “Snag,” an indie thriller in the “El Mariachi” mold. As a director and co-writer … Continue reading →

As comic thrillers go, “Andy Somebody” isn’t much. It’s about a put-upon accountant who steals from a loathesome, abusive and thoroughly crooked California plastic surgeon and said surgeon’s efforts to recover his ill-gotten gains. There are no thrills in this … Continue reading →

“A Tourist’s Guide to Love” is a lovely Vietnamese travelogue in search of a romantic comedy that would transform the trip into a movie. It’s a Rachel Leigh Cook star vehicle so inane that even she seems more interested in … Continue reading →

“Broadway” is a solidly suspenseful Greek film noir set among Athen pickpockets, men and a woman laying low by night, putting on “shows” to distract their marks during the day and slowly figuring out the trap this life is, one … Continue reading →

Ken Loach is Britain’s great social justice filmmaker, a chronicler of labor struggles and Irish uprisings and working class folks just trying to survive every fresh assault on their way of life. Films like “Kes” and “Land and Freedom” and … Continue reading →

Amelia had a pretty good time on her 18th birthday. Popular and beautiful, with a whiff of lazy mean girl about her, she drank and danced and shunned those nerdy “drama kids” like everybody else. But something happens on 40th … Continue reading →