Quickie Review: Pasolini
Italian poet, philosopher and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini loved nothing more than to push the envelope, to scandalize, to shock the senses. So it's only fitting that Abel Ferrara (Bad…
Review: Echo in the Canyon
When I lived in Los Angeles, I frequently drove through Laurel Canyon on the way to and from work and I knew that over the years it had been famous…
Review: Non-fiction (aka Doubles vies)
After seeing Non-fiction, I found IMDB's description of it to be kind of bizarre: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their…
Review: Meeting Gorbachev
As a Werner Herzog über-fan, I'm always excited by the opportunity to watch anything he's involved with, since he usually has a thoughtful and thought provoking view of the world.…
Quickie Review: Working Woman
This Israeli #MeToo drama centers on Orna (Liron Ben-Shlush) whose husband's new Tel Aviv restaurant is struggling to get off the ground, so she takes a job with real estate…
Review: Wild Nights with Emily
The Emily of the title is the 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, long thought to be a delicate recluse who was afraid to publish her work. But that, the…
Quickie Review: Instant Dreams
Did you ever have a Polaroid camera or loved that instantaneous thrill of having the image appear in your hands? The Polaroid camera was a marvel and this quirky doc…
Quickie Review: The Chaperone
Louise Brooks was a silent screen phenomenon. A woman whose style all others copied. But before she was a star, she was just a teenager in Wichita, Kansas. The Chaperone…
Review: Dogman
Bullies need enablers and Dogman is all about one such relationship. At the center is Marcello (Marcello Fonte), a diminutive and timid dog groomer, who lives for his time with…
Quickie Review: Girls of the Sun
In our #Girlpower era, a film about battalion of Kurdish women fighting ISIS in North Kurdistan should be a slam dunk. But somewhere between idea and execution Girls of the…
Quickie Review: Ramen Shop (Ramen Teh)
Following in the tradition of a spate of recent foodie flicks, Ramen Shop wraps a slight story in a culinary journey and has you drooling and wishing the film would…
Quickie Review: The Brink
If you're a political junkie like me, you're probably very familiar with Steve Bannon and his outsized role in electing the current occupant of the White House. This new documentary…
Review: Depraved
Depraved is a modern day Frankenstein movie set in Brooklyn. At the center is young doctor Henry (David Call, TV's The Magicians), who suffers from PTSD after serving in a…
Review: The Invisibles
There are plenty of films about the Jews who lost their lives to the Nazis, but this is the first I've seen about those who hid in plain sight in…
Review: The Wedding Guest
You might expect from the title that this is another of director Michael Winterbottom's light comedies as in The Trip series, and that it has something to do with nuptials,…