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“Furies” is a lurid, ultraviolent Vietnamese thriller about a quartet of women assembled to take down a Saigon crime lord by hitting him where it hurts — killing off his henchmen in ones, twos, or big bunches. Yes, characters refer … Continue reading →

He’s already covered this ground with a pretty good documentary, “More than a Game.” As an aside, the one time I interviewed LBJ was for that film. Interesting story, complicated guy. “The Chosen One” and the guys who became his … Continue reading →

The most common image in “In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis,” is the one represented in two photographs above. We see the Argentinian pope, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in scores of over-the-shoulder shots, filmed from behind as he rides, … Continue reading →

“The Fist of the Condor” transports the basic elements of your typical Bruce-Lee-in-Hong-Kong era martials arts “epic” to the beaches, biker bars and Andean mountains of Chile, and gives us all the archetypes of the genre speaking Spanish. This old-fashioned … Continue reading →

June 16, “opposites” like fire and ice, attract? Ok. Quasi-funky score. Almost no dialogue. Interesting look, but no more than “interesting.” Are you sold?

“Colorblind” is a heavy-handed melodrama about race that never overcomes the air of “student film” that its many ways of underscoring its lone metaphor provide. It’s about a Black artist who suffers from colorblindness, a trait she has passed on … Continue reading →

“Johnny” is about one inspiring priest’s efforts to create a Catholic hospice to give Poles facing death a compassionate end of life experience, battling a foul-mouthed archbishop over the idea even as he himself battled the cancer that would kill … Continue reading →

Yeah, it’s a dramedy. Sad and dark and funny. July 7. Take a gander.

Put the French thriller “Rodeo” in enough theaters, and the main thing greeting the next “Fast/Furious” iteration — along with tens of millions at the box office — would be hoots of laughter. “Rodeo” is an unblinking, gritty and nervous … Continue reading →

Imagine “Weekend at Bernie’s” as a caper comedy directed by John Waters’ Filipina sister. That’s “Partners in Crime,” a campy Filipino romp filled with drag performers, only because they’re Filipino, they’re of a culturally accepted “third gender,” baklâ. Watching the … Continue reading →