Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

The only thing I remember about “The Hit” is how much Siskel & Ebert raved about it back in the day, that “day” being 1985. An Island Pictures release that didn’t make it to “the provinces,” especially the province I … Continue reading →

This looks properly cheesy, if not as funny or fun as one might hope. Sometimes they don’t give away the store in the trailer, tho. So there’s hope. “Uncharted” the treasure hunt thriller opens Feb. 18.

“The Translator” has made a nice life for himself in Australia, using his multi-lingual skills for government entities and journalists, married and, since he’s from Syria, relieved to have escaped a past of justifiable paranoia and danger. But when the … Continue reading →

Labeling “Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman” as “trash” gives this fictionalized, sensationalized and generally incompetent take on America’s most infamous female serial killer credit it doesn’t deserve. “Trash” suggests there might be something “fun” to it. This pseudo-serious “reclaiming” of Wuornos … Continue reading →

“Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” is a documentary about the history of “folk horror,” a film of almost breathtaking thoroughness in exploring what that term means, the shared pagan stories that span the globe and inspired it, and the movies … Continue reading →

Stumbling across any Akira Kurosawa film you’ve missed is an unexpected delight, and the film noir “Stray Dog” has the added pleasure of being an early showcase of the director, his muse — Toshiro Mifune — and his other rep … Continue reading →

These movies ran their course, and then some, and then some more, in theaters. But Tyler Perry’s funniest creation still gets another shot, this time on a streaming service. Cash that Netflix check, T.P. “A Madea Homecoming” streams Feb. 25.

A helpful ghost can take a man back to the moment his mother died, fifty years before. Feb. 18, from Yellow Veil.

Today’s Around the World with Netflix outing is a novel experience — for me, anyway. It’s a Turkish tearjerker. Sentimental and often uncertainly so, “My Father’s Violin (Babamin Kemani)” touches on issues of abuse and poverty, family schisms and family … Continue reading →

Roger DVDSeed spreads a little more cinema to libraries far and wide today, with a MovieNation donation — thanks to IndiePix — of this recent Harriet Tubman documentary. The beneficiary? The downtown library in historic Georgetown, SC, on the Low … Continue reading →