Monthly Archives: January 2024

Abe Golfarb makes a reasonably convincing talk-show host confronted by a listener who can predict the beginning events of “End Times” in “First Time Caller,” a deathly-dull thriller severely limited by a lack of visual variety. Goldfarb, as acerbic chat … Continue reading →

A lot of living, loving, old grudges and new insights on life are worked out in a day of labor “Under the Fig Trees” of Tunisia, that country’s warm and universally human pick for submission as a Best International Feature … Continue reading →

“Christian values” vs. “Christian Power.” Dan Partland directed this alarming and provocative doc, an Oscilloscope Laboratories Feb. 16. release.

This Polish entry for Best International Feature Oscar contention is from the creators of the animated classic “Loving Vincent.” The filmmakers are going to some pains in not allowing this filmed/then-animated movie to be described as “rotoscoped,” as they employed … Continue reading →

George Lucas once said “If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.” Greta Gerwig did that, and tapped into the inner child of women and girls as future feminists … Continue reading →

A chef faces a diner who’d like to order…off the menu. Looks like this one starts with the cheese plate, and serves another and another. “Alice and the Vampire Queen” streams, or bleeds out, Feb. 13.

Power is an aspiring video journalist, Jacob Tremblay is the story she stumbles among that she might love to regret, and Ross is the journalist teaching her student to swing for the fences. “Cold Copy” was a film festival darling … Continue reading →

You get your hands on a pre-tween ballerina who comes from money, you figure “What can go wrong?” Giancarlo Esposito, Kathryn Newton and Dan Stevens are among the familiar faces in this horror comedy about who is “trapped in here” … Continue reading →

One gets the impression that the Brits regard Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy,” as a play, a film, a TV movie or radio drama, with the same warm esteem that Americans regard Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” One … Continue reading →

We’ve all had that fantasy. Some Russian creep or organized group of creeps zaps your computer or that of a loved-one. They try and blackmail you to get control of it back, or get into your data and start looting … Continue reading →