A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove)
This adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestselling novel is one of my favorite films of the year. Written and directed by Hannes Holm, it's 'a Swedish curmudgeon finds his humanity' story…
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Fun! Fun! Fun! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! This documentary from Ron Howard looks at the touring years of the greatest musical group the world has ever known. Okay, that's just my…
The Magnificent Seven
A remake of a remake has a lot to live up to. The original was the Japanese film Seven Samurai, shot in 1954, considered one of director Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces…
Snowden
Unless you never watch the news or have been hiding under a rock for several years, you've probably heard of Edward Snowden. A gripping documentary called Citizen Four was made…
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
Based on the Aristophanes comedy set in Athens circa 411 BC, and translated to small town Texas in the 21st century, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? is essentially…
Landfill Harmonic
The town of Cateura in Paraguay is built on a landfill. Most of the people there make their meager livings sorting trash into sellable recyclables. 40% of the kids don't…
Mia Madre
This is not a film you will enjoy, but you may relate. The main character Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a film director whose life is falling apart around her. Her…
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Anyone who knows me knows I am a HUGE Werner Herzog fan. So when we went to AFI DOCS and could only get one ticket to the Guggenheim Symposium, where…
Into the Forest
What would happen if the electricity and all the things it powers were to disappear? No Internet. No radio. No cell phones! No way of knowing what caused it and…
Little Men
Little Men is a small film with a simple story. Two adolescent boys Jake (Theo Taplitz) and Tony (Michael Barbieri) become best buds when Jake's grandfather dies and his family…
Demon
Demon is a strange little Polish horror flick that mostly takes place during what I’d call a blow-out wedding. Handsome young couple Peter (Itay Tiran) and Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska) have…
Cafe Society
Woody Allen's latest feels very familiar and not terribly original. It’s like he has a drawer full of ideas for film scenes and he just grabbed a hand full and…
Star Trek Beyond
The third installment of the Star Trek reboot is for me the weakest yet, relying on big battles and CGI more than the characters and stories that made the first…
Microbe & Gasoline (Microbe et Gasoil)
Sounds like a science flick, but it's actually a sweet little French coming-of-age film. Theo meets Daniel when he transfers into his school, and as two outcasts often do in…
The Innocents
The Innocents is a brutally beautiful film based on the true story of a young woman doctor sent to Poland with the French Red Cross to aid survivors of the…