Monthly Archives: January 2024

Idyllic 1950s lives and child-rearing, an accident and “blame” and “guilt” tear apart two friends and neighbors and mothers. Two Oscar winners go toe-to-toe — literally. Looks chilling.

America’s penchant for conspiracy theories can be traced back to the nation’s founding. And as recent events confirm, our thirst for embracing ideas that unseen forces and assorted nefarious boogeymen are pulling the political strings and killing those who might … Continue reading →

“Reflect” is a “find yourself” odyssey about five 30ish Angelinas who travel to Sedona, Arizona, for a spiritual/self-actualizing “obstacle course” weekend in a place the Tarot-card-reades/Astrology-believer/crystal-consultants of Flakey America consider a spiritual vortex. Writer-director-star Dana Kippel might be exploring the … Continue reading →

We don’t shave for J. Stay movies, right mate? Unless it’s our scalp. We confine the chatter to a low Cockney growl. We take our tea with honey with because that’s the way Jason Statham LIKES IT and “it’s flammable,” … Continue reading →

Director David Oryan and screenwriters Isaac Fahed and Doris Saba reached for sentimental, low-hanging fruit in their Lebanese childbirth dramedy “C-Section.” And every now and then, they got their hands on a sweet fig or a tart tangerine. But this … Continue reading →

The latest film from the Oscar-winning writer of “Dead Poet’s Society” is a sordid, torpid tale of violence and revenge set against the pulse-pounding (cough cough) sport of keno-pool, that oddball boardgame variation of billiards. “Double Down South” is a … Continue reading →

“Foe,” based on a novel by Iain Reid, is a dreamy and forlorn science fiction parable about the evolving nature of personality, the imperamence of relationships and the limits of science and technology. Set in a very near climate changed … Continue reading →

It’s taken a lot of intestinal fortitude to remain a Nic Cage Completist over the years. An Oscar winner for “Leaving Las Vegas,” great in films all over the spectrum — from “Raising Arizona” and “Peggy Sue Got Married” to … Continue reading →

What a delightful little French-flavored English bon bon this is. “Sleeping Car to Trieste” may be a corny, old-fashioned “Orient Express” rail-bound thriller, peppered with intrigues both deadly and quaintly silly. But by the time this sleeper hits the third … Continue reading →

Perhaps you run into the same reservation I do when considering Netflix’s latest version of the Andean survival epic “Society of the Snow,” a new retelling of the harrowing survival story immortalized in the non-fiction book “Alive,” the terrific 1993 … Continue reading →