Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

The morning after watching Andrea Arnold’s wordless, moving and sometimes unsettling documentary “Cow,” I found myself crossing the vast Deseret Ranches, the Mormon church’s beef cattle country that dominates the flat plains between the coasts of south central Florida. And … Continue reading →

Here’s a cinematic resume you don’t run across every day. Levan Tediashvili is an Olympic and world champion wrestler from Georgia — the one that used to be in the Soviet Union — turned actor and now film director. So … Continue reading →

“Schemers” is an autobiographical slice of Scottish whimsy about a 20ish lad who becomes a concert promoter just to impress a college girl in the Dundee, Scotland of the 1980s. As Davie McLean (Conor Berry) tells his tale — with … Continue reading →

Hand it to Paramount. They keep making hay out of their most popular intellectual properties, “Star Trek,” and now “The Godfather.” Miles Teller plays producer/hustler Albert Ruddy, Matthew Goode is handsome slick and vain studio honcho Robert Evans, with Giovanni … Continue reading →

The gold, or at least silver standard for teen heist movies was filmed way back in 2004. “The Perfect Score” was about breaking in and stealing the answers to that year’s SAT at the Princeton Testing Center, where such data … Continue reading →

You know what this original trailer reinforces? The iconic characters, the legends playing them, the instantly recognizable music? It’s the idea that “The Godfather” was a “Star Wars” or “Harry Potter” for grownup film lovers. An alien universe obsessively detailed, … Continue reading →

A high end housing development is going up on a big British farm that changed hands under unsavory circumstances, a development resented by locals, including the family that lost that farm, and all on ancient land with Druid legends attached … Continue reading →

This looks like a splattered, splintered hoot with a helping helping of “G’Dye.” April 14, “Wyrmwood” comes to Dunsinane…of Brisbane. Crikey!

The 2020 Czech drama “Servants (Sluzobníci)” could not be a more timely home streaming release, it being a drama set not long after the 1968 Warsaw Pact, aka “Soviet Union” aka “Russian” invasion, “regime change” and occupation of Czechoslovakia. Director … Continue reading →

A practice engrained by years in newspapers has me avoiding the use of staged/photoshopped promotional photos for reviews of films. But this image so perfectly encapsulates the Japanese weeper romance “Love Like the Falling Petals,” that avoiding it wouldn’t be … Continue reading →