Monthly Archives: January 2026

Filmgoers looking for a little escape from the more-horrific-than-fiction daily news out of America will be hard pressed to find it in a movie with “Greenland” and “Migration” in its title. The sequel to the surprise post-apocalyptic Gerard Butler hit … Continue reading →

Wonder if they take refugees fleeing Nazis?

“Band on the Run” is a sweet little nothing of a roadtrip comedy where the “nothing” overwhelms the “sweet.” It has its moments. Just not that many. Writer-director Jeff Hupp set this tale at the end of the golden age … Continue reading →

France’s great re-invention of cinema, pioneered by the “New Wave” of French filmmakers who started writing and directing in the 1950s, is charmingly remembered in Richard Linklater’s affectionate homage “Nouvelle Vague.” The director of “Boyhood” and more tellingly “Me and … Continue reading →

I’d call the title “Relentless” truth in advertising, althought “Pitiless,” “Endless” and “Senseless” work just as well. This new thriller from the sarcastically surnamed writer-director Tom Botchii (real name Tom Botchii Skowronski of “Artik” fame) begins in uninteresting mystery, strains … Continue reading →

“Everything to Me” is a coming-of-age dramedy so inconsequential as to make one question how it ever got financed and shot. Skipping past the still rarish nature of such tales told from the point of view of girls and young … Continue reading →

A dynamic and charismatic action heroine gets lost in “Revolver Lily,” a ponderous and repetitive period piece about a lady assassin indirectly trying to head off WWII by protecting a kid who has documents incriminating the Japanese Army in an … Continue reading →

It’s hard to recreate the cold slap and jolt of adrenalin the German thriller “Run Lola Run” delivered when it sprinted into theaters back in 1998. Primal right down to its blunt-instrument title — “Lola Rennt” in German — the … Continue reading →