Daily Archives: June 14, 2023

Trying to build a lockdown drama around “What we learned” during the Pandemic — about outselves, our racial divide, our “privilege” and our empathy — would be a daunting task for anybody. As yet, virtually no one’s quite gotten their … Continue reading →

It’s not just the title that makes “One Night Stand” the raciest, most sexual Indonesian film to ever make it to Netflix. It opens with a fevered road-side in-the-car hook-up — in broad daylight on the access road to an … Continue reading →

“Anonymous Sister” is one filmmaker’s effort to tell the story of America’s “man-made”/Purdue Pharma engineered opioid epidemic simply by the impact on her family. Writer-director Jamie Boyle tells the story of growing up during the birth of the opioid crisis … Continue reading →

Irene is young, dancing along the fine line between those French labels “gamine” and “coquette” as she dreams of glory as an actress. She’s in her late teens, eager to be accepted in a Paris conservatory, supported by her widowed … Continue reading →