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Here’s a nasty, darkly-funny thriller that gives new meaning to the phrase “Turkish Delight.” “Chokehold,” titled “Boga Boga” in Turkish, is a “Will he get away with it?” murder mystery about a Ponzi scheme operator that everybody in Asia Minor … Continue reading →

Judy Blume’s “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” comes to the screen as a laugh-out-loud comedy that will be nostalgic to those who grew up with the books, and a rare girl-powered tween tale with edge for everybody else. … Continue reading →

The state of the art in the “artificial intelligence” debate is packed into a 90 minute indie drama just now making its way from the film festival circuit and into the reach of the general public. “The Artifice Girl” is … Continue reading →

I’m not a huge horror buff, fan or aficionado. But when I sit down to watch one I do like for it to be smart. “Clock” is a childbirth/”biological clock” thriller that has modern medicine playing God, The Holocaust and … Continue reading →

Harry Belafonte, who brought music from “The Islands” to the masses and helped integrate American pop music, film and television, an activist who never lost that passion for justice and equality, has died at the age of 96. He outlived … Continue reading →

Inutterably gorgeous and inexpressively sad, “The Eight Mountains” is an Italian journey of male self-discovery, a “Razor’s Edge” without a war, “Eat Pray Love” with a little less indulgence. Based on a novel by Paolo Cognetti, it wrestles with a … Continue reading →

Damn, this looks a LOT like “More Than a Game, the 2008 doc LeBron James participated in and produced. Buzz Bissinger of “Friday Night Lights” is involved this time, but… June 2. Maybe it’ll be more revealing.

Ben Milliken the actor more or less holds his own as a seemingly unkillable bouncer, drug mule and factotum for another Mexican Reina del Sur in “Snag,” an indie thriller in the “El Mariachi” mold. As a director and co-writer … Continue reading →

As comic thrillers go, “Andy Somebody” isn’t much. It’s about a put-upon accountant who steals from a loathesome, abusive and thoroughly crooked California plastic surgeon and said surgeon’s efforts to recover his ill-gotten gains. There are no thrills in this … Continue reading →

“A Tourist’s Guide to Love” is a lovely Vietnamese travelogue in search of a romantic comedy that would transform the trip into a movie. It’s a Rachel Leigh Cook star vehicle so inane that even she seems more interested in … Continue reading →