Monthly Archives: June 2023

Yes, a film buff can get his or her hands on every Bogart, Alan Ladd and John Garfield film noir in an economical amount of time. But it seems like there’s always another Dick Powell outing that you’ve passed-over, missed, … Continue reading →

Two-time Oscar winner, former member of Parliament, grande dame of the stage, the small screen and the big one, Glenda Jackson was one of a kind. She lived 87 years, most of them bathed in glory. Tough, flinty, a British … Continue reading →

The journey isn’t epic, and it doesn’t cover a great distance — emotionally or geographically. But Mikhaël Hers’ latest film, set entirely in the XVth arrondisement of Paris and taking place over just under ten years, shows us the little … Continue reading →

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 →