Review: The Dig
I'll be the first to admit that I had no idea where Sutton Hoo was or that it was the site of one of the great archeological finds of the…
Review: Supernova
No, this isn’t another space movie, though the title may give you that impression. It’s a placid roadtrip movie, featuring a middle-aged gay couple riding through England’s Lake District in…
Action/Adventure
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Chick Flick
Comedy
Crime
Date movie
Drama
Special Feature
Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 8
This week's picks include classics and cult faves. There's only one foreign film in the bunch for a change of pace. Two of the films come from the same director,…
Review: Our Friend
Read this first. It's the Esquire article on which Our Friend is based. The writer is Matthew Teague, a journalist who wrote an essay about the slow and painful death…
Review: One Night in Miami
Academy Award winning actress Regina King's extraordinary directorial debut is an adaptation of a play that tells the story of one evening in 1964 when four African-American icons get together…
Review: The Marksman
What can I say? It’s Liam Neeson – with a straw hat, a rifle, and a faithful dog. There’s nothing particularly unique or original about The Marksman, but Neeson gives…
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Chick Flick
Comedy
Crime
Drama
French
Italian
Romance
Spanish language
Special Feature
Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 7
This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…
Quickie Review: Stars Fell on Alabama
It could've been worse. I could have paid to see Stars Fell on Alabama in a theater. Instead, I was able to float mindlessly through this romantic dramedy as if…
Review: Da Five Bloods
I can't believe it's taken me so long to watch this one, but since awards season is sneaking up and screeners are flying into my mailbox, I finally bit the…
Review: Small Axe: Mangrove
The first film of Steve McQueen's (12 Years a Slave) Small Axe anthology sets a high bar for the 5-part series. Mangrove tells the true story of a group that…
Review: The Midnight Sky
Not sure what George Clooney thought he was making, but this post-apocalyptic drama is a slog. In it a heavily bearded Augustine Lofthouse (Clooney) is left behind at an arctic…
Action/Adventure
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Chick Flick
Comedy
Crime
Date movie
Drama
French
Italian
Romance
Special Feature
Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6
This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…
Review: News of the World
Why does Tom Hanks make everything just a bit more comforting? In his latest, he plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a Civil War veteran who travels from town to town…
Review: Promising Young Woman
I finally have a solid front-runner for my 'best of' list for film and lead actress for 2020. It's Promising Young Woman starring Carey Mulligan (Wildlife, Mudbound, An Education). The…
Review: First Cow
Sometime in the early 19th century somewhere in the Pacific Northwest two men meet in the woods near a trappers' encampment. One of them is naked. What follows is the…