Movies about Women Who Leave: Shayda and Priscilla
This time of year, I watch a lot of movies at once and sometimes it seems that two of them are on the same wavelength, despite being very different stories.…
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
The main reason I viewed this film was my teenage love for the rock band King Crimson. I can't say I kept up with them over the years, and I…
Dream Scenario
Nicolas Cage is not an actor who is easily pigeon-holed. From comedies like Valley Girl and Raising Arizona to romantic leads like Moonstruck to scenery-chewing flicks like Con Air, to…
Saltburn
Writer/Director Emerald Fennell came out of the gate with a bang with her Oscar winning film Promising Young Woman. It was easily my favorite film of 2020. So I was…
The Holdovers
This holiday movie is one of the best yet! It reunites director Alexander Payne (Election, Nebraska) with Paul Giamatti (Love & Mercy, 12 Years a Slave) an actor who gave…
Maestro
Maestro is a very ambitious film. Co-written and directed by and starring Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born, Silver Linings Playbook), it attempts to tell the story of Leonard Bernstein,…
Big Flicks on a Little Screen: Nyad and The Killer
It's amazing how quickly big movies are coming to streaming services these days. Sometimes they haven't even made it to the local theater before I get that Netflix notice that…
Mami Wata
Nigerian writer-director C.J. Obasi has taken an old West African folktale about a water deity who looks out for her land-lubbing followers through a priestess and crafted an absorbing fantasy-thriller…
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
I'll admit that going into this eye-opening documentary, I could not have told you who Robert Irwin was. I realized later though that I have seen his work. And now…
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese is unquestionably one of our great American filmmakers. But why does he have to make all his films so damn long? The Wolf of Wall Street was 3…
El Conde
In this new dark satire from Pablo Larraín (Spencer, Neruda), Chilean general and dictator August Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) is a vampire. It's not a stretch. He did suck the country…
Cassandro
I've been a fan of Gael Garcia Bernal (Y tu mamá también, "Mozart in the Jungle", No) for a very long time. I love that he tackles such a wide…
The Inventor
Jim Capobianco who earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination for writing the delightful Ratatouille takes on the later years of Leonardo da Vinci in his directorial debut. His engaging animated feature…
Between Two Worlds
Juliette Binoche stars in this French drama in what initially seems like an uncharacteristic role for her. Marianne is a down on her luck woman looking for a menial job…
Golda
1973, Israel is in a fight for its very existence. At the helm is a very tough little Wisconsin-raised woman named Golda Meir who will win the wars being waged…