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A good Spanish drama about a stubborn tender of sheep holding out against developers should join the collection of The Jean Rhenn Public Library, Seminole County’s finest. Here’s my review of “El Pastor.” MovieNation, improving America’s moviegoing choices one film, … Continue reading →

It takes a good, long time for Jonathan Cenzual Burley’s “El Pastor (The Shepherd)” to become the thriller that comes to mind the moment you hear its description. But he makes sure that in this gritty tale of a lone-holdout … Continue reading →

Three generations of owners of the same British house cope with “change” and mysterious twists in their circumstances and fate. The look of this vermin and bugs-animated series (Helena Bonham Carter and Matthew Goode are among those doing the voices) … Continue reading →

Who’s up for a “Lost City of Z,” “Romancing the Stone” mashup? With Daniel Radcliffe in the uh Danny DeVito role? This could be cute. Pitt had “Lost City of Z” rights for a while. Getting a comedy out of … Continue reading →

Let’s cut to the chase with “The King’s Man,” shall we? The movie doesn’t come to life, pop off the screen and make any impression at all until Rasputin shows up. All this other “origin story” of the Kingsman SECRET … Continue reading →

There are worse ways to spend a holiday matinee than sitting with the kids watching and singing along with a “Sing” movie. “Sing 2” is just as long, just as childishly-plotted and almost manic in its haste to hurtle from … Continue reading →

Major points for style and just plain kinkiness go to Canadian Bruce LaBruce for his latest cinematic toying with taboos, “Saint-Narcisse.” When you see and review 1,000 movies a year, any filmmaker who makes you sit up and go, “Well, … Continue reading →

“Son of Monarchs” is a contemplative character study of a molecular biologist who studies the Monarch butterflies that winter in and around his hometown of Angangueo, Michoacán. He studies them at a university in New York, and when he’s summoned … Continue reading →

“Night Teeth” is another one of those vampire movies more concerned with “rules” and exposition and “explaining” how this world operates than most of the elements that make such genre pictures work. The pacing is funereal, the reactions — or … Continue reading →

The first grabber moment comes during a college party at a wealthy friend’s house, the perfect place for (Chloe Grace Moretz) to be just after she’s urinated on a stick. She and boyfriend Sam (Algee Smith of “Detroit”) may be … Continue reading →