Monthly Archives: May 2023

The story has turned up in so many forms, in every media imaginable — yes, even a “graphic novel” — that it’s a piece of our universal narrative heritage now. “Carmen” was the classic femme fatale, the perfect temptress to … Continue reading →

Looks the way you remember, plays like the novel made cinematic and rabble rousing.

The hook’s in the title, the title tells the tale and if you’re reading this review, you too must have been lured by the bait of “Plus One at an Amish Wedding.” This sunny, PG rom-com is free streamer Tubi’s … Continue reading →

I’m watching it for the Mike Lindell cameo.

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 →