Monthly Archives: September 2023

A string of movies escaped at the end of summer, as they do every summer, as August-Labor Day is the traditional dumping ground of titles with low box office expectations which studios unload on cinemas, desperately in need of content … Continue reading →

Holy Karla Goes to the Circus! I had no idea this happened or was in the works. The obscurant title flitted by once or twice, but I didn’t realize is harkened the cinema’s greatest interviewer sitting down and going deep … Continue reading →

Obscure music docs are kind of a thing for a lot of us, especially those of the belief that “if it’s really popular, it can’t be all that good.” This doc about the breakup of a band most have never … Continue reading →

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson had one of the most enduring actor marriages in Hollywood, a union that lasted some 56 years and only ended with Wallach’s death in 2014. Jackson died two years later. The talented master craftsman and … Continue reading →

This October 13 “inspired by a true story” drama is the best kind of faith-based film, uplifting, hopeful, righteous and apolitical. Nancy Travis and Alan Ritchson also star.

This looks like a grand appreciation of one of the giants of music, a ’60s survivor, guitar hero and Latin icon. Lovely.

In magazine articles, non-fiction books and novels, Tom Wolfe coined era-defining phrases like “The Me Decade,” “Radical Chic” and “The Right Stuff.” A “helluva reporter” and a master stylist, the courtly, dapper Richmond-born Wolfe underscored his legacy when he started … Continue reading →

The Alabama troubadour who discovered “Margaritaville” has died. Jimmy Buffett, a singer-songwriter who popularized “Floridays,” a tipsy laid back beachside Florida lifestyle, who put Key West back on the map and who parlayed a musical fanbase into a “Latitudes” and … Continue reading →

The last weekend of summer is turning out to be a big one for Denzel Washington’s farewell to the “Equalizer” franchise, and for his reunion with Dakota Fanning, his 2004 “Man on Fire” co-star, now all grown up and playing … Continue reading →

A film bathed in fog and Medieval earth tones, “The Name of the Rose” is an M.C. Escher labyrinth populated with Hieronymous Bosch grotesques. It’s a throwback epic of the quasi-Biblical school, the “El Cid” of the ’80s — grand, … Continue reading →