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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 →

An amusing pixie since birth, Carol Kane is a comic life force and as amusing in person as she is in her many off-the-wall characters — from “Taxi” to “The Princess Bride,” “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and beyond. The “Hester … Continue reading →

With the discredited blockbuster sham “Sound of Freedom” still fresh on everyone’s mind, critics can be excused for steering clear “City of Dreams,” another human trafficking tale, this one about Mexican kids lured to America only to be trapped in … Continue reading →