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UFOs and aliens and A Bomb tests in the 1950s desert make up the weekends of Anderson’s latest, opening June 16. All star cast, not a lot of laughs in this first trailer, but you get the idea. “Twee” as … Continue reading →

Perhaps you’re not of a mind that a short-lived record label run by an all-in music biz gambler of the ’70s is a subject worthy of a two hour and seventeen minute musical bio-pic. But that just means you’re not … Continue reading →

In life, it happens gradually. But in the movies, one day a character wakes up and realizes she or he isn’t in sync with or even aware of “what the kids are into these days.” That’s the subtext of actor … Continue reading →

“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 →