Five Nights in Maine: Loved and Lost
Opening this week at AMC Grapevine Mills for a limited run, Five Nights in Maine is a racially charged two-hander of a bereavement drama...
Knives Out: Blanc Space
On the one hand, I wish Rian Johnson were directing the new Star Wars installment after the job he did on The Last Jedi....
The Handmaiden: Pickpocket
Korean movies don’t talk about homosexuality. Homosexuality is legal in South Korea, but a majority of people still disapprove, so it seldom comes up...
Climax: Dance Dance Execution
If you don’t read another word of my review of Climax, just click on the video screen below:
https://youtu.be/9n-6A6bPBA0
That’s awesome. It comes near the beginning...
Ne Zha: Demon Seed
Last year when I reviewed Big Fish & Begonia, I wrote about how China is playing catch-up with the rest of the Far East...
Moonrise Kingdom: Sam ♥ Suzy
All of Wes Anderson’s movies are children’s movies. That’s what I realized while watching his Moonrise Kingdom, a spellbinding piece of work that opens...
Ma Rainey: Levee Sings the Blues
When Chadwick Boseman died this past summer, we heard that he had one performance left in the can, a starring role in a film...
Moana: Once on This Island
Moana
Voices by Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Written by Jared Bush. Rated PG.
When Hollywood talks about “diversity,”...
Irishman: Made Man
In the end, The Irishman’s winless fate at the Oscars was probably down to a surfeit of woe-is-me tales about aging white guys like...
A Taxi Driver: Korea Cab
If it's August, it must be time for Korean movies. While Hollywood takes its annual breather between the summer blockbusters and the fall prestige...
