Dreamin’ Wild
Dreamin' Wild is a soulful, slow-burn indie based on a true story. If you're part of the cult fan base that sparked the resurrection of a long-lost album by singer-songwriter…
Oppenheimer
In July of 1945, the first test of the Atomic Bomb was conducted under a cloud of secrecy in New Mexico; a month later, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on…
L’immensità
Set in 1970s Rome, L'immensità is a semi-autobiographical look at one summer in director Emanuele Crialese's youth. In the film, the eldest child in the family is a teenage Adri…
The Future
Set in the not too distant future in Israel, which doesn't feel all that different from right now, The Future is the story of two women, Dr. Nurit Bloch (Reymonde…
On the Edge (Entre La Vie et La Mort)
A body falls onto the tracks in front of a Brussels subway driver as he pulls into the station. It's every subway driver's nightmare, but this time it is his…
Book Club: The Next Chapter
If you put the first Book Club movie in a PG-13 blender with the likes of Girls Trip, Bridesmaids, and 80 for Brady, you'd have yourself a nice, tall glass…
To Catch a Killer
Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars) stars in this Silence of the Lambs wannabe procedural thriller as Eleanor, a young beat cop who finds herself in the center…
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Double Feature: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Judy Blume Forever
Growing up, it was a rite of passage to get "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" out of the library and plow through it, along with a stack of…
The Worst Ones (Les pires)
Set in Picasso, a gritty, working class town in the north of France, The Worst Ones is a film-within-a-film. Belgian director Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh) comes to the town to shoot…
Juniper
It's probably just the films I am choosing to watch these days, but it is a great time for older actresses. Juniper stars Charlotte Rampling and she hasn't lost an…
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
“So what’d you think?,” someone asked with an impish grin as I emerged from the theater. “It’s…steamy,” was about all I could muster in the (over-heated) moment. Now that I’ve…
A Man Called Otto
If Tom Hanks’ oddball performance (and accent) as Col. Parker in Elvis threw you for a loop in 2022, then prepare to hop back on the Tom Hanks love train…
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Here's what I wanna do after watching Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody: 1) surf YouTube for real clips from all the great moments showcased in the film, including…
Review: Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
A couple of weeks before I saw this film, I read filmmaker Werner Herzog’s first novel "The Twilight World,” which draws on his meeting 25 years ago with Hiroo Onoda,…
Reviews: She Said and Women Talking
I saw these two films just days apart and they seemed to speak to one another. Both take on sexual predation, but from very different viewpoints. She Said is a…