Review: Force of Nature
Take Die Hard and add a $55 million art heist gone wrong, then set it in the middle of a Category 5 hurricane in Puerto Rico, and you've got Force…
Arty Chick’s AFIDOCS 2020 Wrap-up
We’ve been going to AFIDOCS since 2014. It’s usually a great long weekend of documentaries and mixing with film lovers and filmmakers. This year because of COVID-19, it was a…
Review: The Letter
In this fascinating documentary from Kenya, Karisa a young man living in the big city of Mombasa travels back to his home village when he hears through Facebook that his…
Quickie Review: The Fight
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has been around for a hundred years. Its mandate is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in…
Review: Babyteeth
In this wonderfully dark dramedy from down under, Milla (Eliza Scanlen - Little Women) is a cancer stricken 16-year-old who falls for free spirited drug dealer Moses (Toby Wallace) much…
Review: My Darling Vivian
My Darling Vivian is a love letter to Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto with whom he had four daughters and initially a great romance. Narrated mainly by those four…
Review: Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
You might think last year's Where's my Roy Cohn told us all we need to know about the man who spawned the current occupant of the White House. But Ivy…
Quickie Review: Tommaso
I know I'm the Arty Chick, but this one is too arty for me. I'll admit from the get-go that I've never been a big fan of Abel Ferrara. He's…
Review: The Half of It
If you're looking for a light as air romantic comedy, Netflix has you covered with its latest Cyrano de Bergerac retread. In this version, set in a Pacific Northwest high…
Review: Lucky Grandma
This dark comedy set mainly in New York's Chinatown begins with curmudgeonly chain-smoker Grandma (Tsai Chin - Joy Luck Club, Casino Royale) visiting LeiLei the Fortune Teller (Wai Ching Ho…
Quickie Review: Arkansas
Arkansas is one of those indie flicks that somehow finagled a pretty impressive cast - Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, John Malkovich, Vivica A. Fox - even though it's directed by…
Review: How to Build a Girl
In this engaging coming-of-age flick, Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart, Ladybird) is a nerdy teenager living on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England in 1993. Her Dad's a ne'er-do-well…
Quickie review: Working Man
In this time of sheltering in place anxiety, this indie flick touches a nerve. It's the story of a Rust Belt factory closing down and the workers feeling lost without…
Review: Deerskin (Le daim)
This has to be one of the oddest movies I've seen in a long while! It's from Quentin Dupieux the writer/director who brought us Rubber. In case you missed that…
Review: Bull
I hadn't heard of this one and was a bit wary of it since it seems to be about rodeo, not high on my list of entertainments. But I really…