Monthly Archives: September 2024

Long before the abrupt, not-that-shocking and obvious anti-climax of the horror thriller “The Front Room,” the viewer may feel entitled to mutter, “So what is this really about?” A dark, serio-comic tussle with post partum depression? An unsubtle poke at … Continue reading →

The movie is a nostalgic wallow in old-school production design. The Bee Gees live on and pop up on the soundtrack and Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” is reprised. But one musical gag, teased in the first act and camped to high … Continue reading →

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel comes to the screen in an adaptation by cinematographer and documentarian RaMell Ross. Amazon/MGM’s big Oscar bait fall release?

Becky Ann Baker, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, Colleen Camp and Chandra Russell also star in this singer, actress turned writer-director Haroula Rose serio-comic study in dysfunction, a Freestyle release.

A remote beach house with history, lovers hitting a rough patch with an imagined affair, a death and… Hannah Levian, Nathan Phillips and Ben Turland star in this chiller, opening in Oz shortly. North America release coming?

The cartoonish caper of “The Falling Star,” the latest semi-silent slapstick farce by the troupe led by Euro clowns Abel & Gordon, won’t be to every taste. Truth be told, it took me a good long while to get on … Continue reading →

Forget Chalamet. Forget the Nobel laureate of the Iron Range. It is Yankovich who serves up a palindrome of a riff of a Dylan classic

The marvel of a rom-com like “Honeymoonish” is that such a unicorn exists. It’s a polished, slick and beautifully-mounted Kuwaiti comedy that bends Hollywood rom-com traditions to an Islamic, Middle Eastern sensibility. Films like this from Indonesia, Malaysia and various … Continue reading →

Yeah, tell her “Happiness is a choice” one more time. Scoot McNairy, Zoe Chao, and Jessica Harper are among the stars of this satiric Amy Adams comedy about a new mom who identifies with…dogs. Marielle Heller — “A Beautiful Day … Continue reading →

You have to be of a certain age to remember “The Ballad of Davy Crockett,” where the frontiersman “raised in the woods so he knew (“know’d”) every tree” is remembered in song because he “kilt him a b’ar when he … Continue reading →