Monthly Archives: September 2023

An outstanding cast overcomes a tendency by the filmmakers to try too hard in wrestling with arcane financial maneouvering in “Dumb Money,” a sort of “Big Short Lite” about the Gamestop stock manipulation war of a couple of years back. … Continue reading →

Two Oscar winners face off in a tale of a notorious romance from 20 years before — Portman interviewing and getting to know Julianne Moore, a woman who once had an affair with a “seventh grader.” Charles Melton and Kelvin … Continue reading →

Classic American small city in the Midwest — more diverse and tolerant than you expect, “safe” to those who move there. And then Donald Trump gets elected and the racist goons come out from under the rocks they’d been hiding … Continue reading →

One early assertion in Nick Broomfield’s new documentary appreciation “The Stones and Brian Jones” will stand out to many a Rolling Stones fan, the idea that “I don’t think many people remember who (Jones) was.” Even someone coming to the … Continue reading →

How’s this for a romantic “meet cute?” He spies her outside the flat of a mate, a tracksuited young woman with bangs to die for and a willingness to sprint and parkour her getaway. He’s a combat soldier, apparently just … Continue reading →

This could be a fascinating peek into the machinations meant to end coerced confessions by short-cutting cops, and how this civil rights work impacted the young woman whose alleged accused attacker bore the surname that became known as “Read’em their … Continue reading →

Game recognizes game and there’s no hustle like hustling a hustler in “The Kill Room,” an unlikely all-star comedy about lowdown and dirty contract killing spilling over into the pretentious world of modern art and the “types” who inhabit it. … Continue reading →

Post apocalyptic child rearing, getting your baby “home” after an environmental catastrophe? Coming soon.

While one can appreciate the idea that a talented filmmaker with style and edge would turn his attention to children’s films, and the Texas-based studio he founded to shoot them in, a new Robert Rodriguez “Spy Kids” installment always gives … Continue reading →

“And Then Come the Nightjars” is a droll and poignant tale of male bonding and how a traumatic event scars such a relationship and sounds a death knell for a way of life. It’s distinctly British elegy, a two-handed piece … Continue reading →