Daily Archives: June 14, 2023

A little one-eyed boy whose Mom works with…NORAD? The first guy you think of when aliens say, “Bring us your LEADER.”

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 →

Kim Seon-Ho stars in this Park Hoon-Jung action pic from KPop Land June 30 is when we see it in theaters.

Cage at his Cagiest, a “Collateral” plot, a July 28 release.

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 →

This 1981 French election-year period piece has Charlotte Gainsbourg as a newly-divorced woman with two kids, who takes on a radio gig and takes in a troubled teen she meets on the street. “The Passengers of the Night” — very … 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 →