Daily Archives: August 9, 2023

Layers of hurt and pieces of a puzzle peel away over the course of Kôji Fukada’s “Love Life,” a forlorn and downbeat drama with dissonant dramedy touches. It’s intriguing yet so slow and quiet as to test one’s patience, duller … Continue reading →

Gibson joins Collin Woodell, Nhung Kate, Katie McGrath, Jessica Alain and…Ray McKinnon in this continuation “prequel” of Wickworld and the hotel for assassins. For those not following the post-“cancellation” Mel Gibson saga, this sort of violent action setting has been … Continue reading →

A tone poem on rural life, community and Black life in the rural South. A fall feature from our friends at A24.

“The Pod Generation” is an aridly-dry sci-fi satire about childbirth in a more technologically convenient future. It’s a dark comedy that’s more cautionary than amusing, and downright triggering at times. Writer-director Sophia Barthes extrapolates our app-obsessed/mega-corp-controlled present world into that … Continue reading →