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A porn actress is hellbent on finding stardom via horror, but a “Night Stalker” haunting LA may get in her way. Did I mention she’s played by Mia Goth? I pity the stalker. Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Giancarlo Esposito,  Bobby … Continue reading →

You can look at the young actors playing four redneck teens accused of throwing rocks at an Amish buggy and killing a baby and tell which one of them might have become a star in “A Stoning in Fulham County.” … Continue reading →

Woody Harrelson and Ray Romano also star in this ’60s period piece about a “back up plan” in case, you know, we don’t LAND on the Moon. ScarJo plays the marketing whiz who “casts” and “sells” NASA and the Moonshot…or … Continue reading →

The Swiss drama “A Forgotten Man” is an intriguing if not wholly satisfying dip into a piece of little debated history, Switzerland’s dubious “neutrality” during World War II. Writer-director Laurent Nègre, inspired by a play by Thomas Hürlimann, seeks to … Continue reading →

Every indie film — if it’s “indie” enough — is a teachable moment in the sorts of story you can tell with very little money, a catchy conceit and the best assets you have at hand. Sometimes those assets include … Continue reading →

The stumbling French Netflix remake of “The Wages of Fear,” a 1953 thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot, whetted my appetite for re-watching that touchstone tale of desperate men taking on a suicidal job, each for his own grim reasons. But none … Continue reading →

Hunter Schafer stars as a young woman who moves with Dad’s (Marton Csokas) to a resort in the Bavarian Alps, a place where people with Germanic accents (Dan Stevens, et al) use words like “experiments” a tad too often for … Continue reading →

“Rest in Peace” is a sturdy Argentian thriller with too many soap operatic touches and twists for its own good. It’s a tale of escaping a messy life through a horrific but all-too-convenient historical event, the bombing of a Jewish … Continue reading →

Movies that look as if the cast had too much fun making them are often cursed. But “Repo Man,” a cult sci-fi comedy from 1984, has long been the exception to that rule. Loopy to the point of gonzo, scruffy … Continue reading →

A Mother-Child coming-of-age drama about coming of age depressed, and a mother led out of depression by, perhaps, her little girl? It’s a period piece set in 1991 and therefor a “personal” tale by actress, turned writer and now first-time … Continue reading →