Daily Archives: October 12, 2023

You can’t really call it a preview when it’s the night before opening. But I missed it on the festival circuit and had to see it in a theater, no matter what my kidneys might say. Three hours and 24 … Continue reading →

The Czech and Slovak joint production “Nightsiren” is a witchy tale about superstition, ritual and the function of witchcraft in an age-old patriarchy. Director and co-writer Tereza Nvotová has conjured up an obscure, opaque thriller of symbolism and violence, old … Continue reading →

“Open” is an “open marriage melodrama complete with “rules” that are broken, celebrity, an unplanned pregnancy and stalking. But the hook here is that writer, director and co-star Miles Doleac imagines our heroine, played by his wife and co-star Lindsay … Continue reading →

I counted one legit laugh in the Danish pregnancy comedy “Maybe Baby (Bytte bytte baby),” a film about two couples of differing ages experiencing the (scientific) miracle of childbirth. They have a joint baby shower, and the holisitic “hippy” couple’s … Continue reading →

A chauffeuring courtship scene involving DiCaprio and Gladstone, as the oil-rich young Osage woman Mollie. I do love me a good period piece and a Scorsese epic.

“This Much We Know” is an old-school first person essay documentary and new style “performative” bit of navel gazing about suicide, how we understand it and why Las Vegas is the “suicide capital of North America.” But filmmaker, interviewer and … Continue reading →