Daily Archives: May 2, 2023

I got a few laughs out of “Double Life,” a Canadian thriller about a two-timing man who gets murdered and the widow and his chick-on-the-side who team up to solve the crime. Whatever grieving widow Sharon (Pascale Hutton) doesn’t suspect … Continue reading →

For the Floyd completist in your life a documentary that opens May 15 in his native UK and comes to North America in June.

They’re pitching this as a comedy drama, I’d say “Dramedy” is the emphasis the trailer gives off. This doesn’t really sell the movie, downbeat, extended clips, not one light moment in it. But maybe that’s just me. June 27.

“The Matchmaker” is an edgy Saudi parable, an inverted “Handmaid’s Tale” warning the patriarchy about a mythical reckoning to come from the oppressed women in their lives. But being Saudi, it was filmed by men and its words of warning … Continue reading →

This May 26 release from Quiver stars Lulu Wilson as our avenger, a troubled teen who has it in for American Nazis, and Seann William Scott as their Poster Boy. Looks like a ton of bloody fun.

“David Holzman’s Diary” is as much as stunningly-prophetic predictor of “now” as it is a fascinating artifact of “then.” It’s a 1967 mockumentary before that term was even invented. It was photographed by one of the great documentary cinematographers of … Continue reading →