Review: Despite a Sense of Urgency Mr. Jones is a Bleak Look Back at History
Based on real events, Mr. Jones is a pre-World War II drama that centers on some of the events that led (or perhaps misled) to paving the way for Hitler […]
Review: Inheritance Isn’t Much Without Gritty, Slightly Twisted Performances
There are times when a clever film is a bit too clever for its own good. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still fun—the kind of fun that stems from on […]
Review: Lucky Grandma is a Heist Film with Heart
Back in the “before” times (before pandemics, before lockdowns, before movies were limited to what we can stream from home), a film like Lucky Grandma relied on the buzz generated around […]
Review: An Unlikely Friendship Unfolds in Carefully Crafted The Painter and The Thief
As film premises go, the one for The Painter and the Thief is a doozy: an artist seeks out and befriends the man who stole her paintings. If it weren’t a […]
Review: Discover Legendary Chef Diana Kennedy’s Life and Influence in Nothing Fancy
I know very little about the great chefs or restaurants, but that never seems to stand in the way of my fully enjoying great documentaries about them both, including Diana […]
Review: The Lovebirds Are Anything But In This Slight Rom-Com
Up until recently, most of the big-ticket films scheduled to be released in theaters that have been sidetracked to some form of streaming of VOD platform have been family-friendly works. […]
Review: Food, Humor and Good Fun Concludes Poignantly in The Trip to Greece
One of my absolute, all-time favorite film series doesn’t feature any special effects or crazy stunts. What the The Trip movies do feature are two of the most engaging and […]
Review: Time Warp‘s Second Installation Highlights Horror and Sci-Fi Classics
Following last month’s first in a three-part documentary series on the history of some of the most famous cult films in history, Time Warp, Vol. 2–Horror and Sci-Fi is another […]
Review: Animated, Direct-to-VOD Scoob! Is Somehow Too Much and Not Enough
If it’s possible for a film to be both too much and not enough, then that’s probably the best way to describe Scoob!, the latest studio feature film that was […]
Review: Alice Proves a Promising if Over-Polished Debut Feature Film
Writer/director Josephine Mackerras makes her feature film debut with Alice, the story of a woman who discovers her husband’s obsession with a high-end escort service only to be drawn into the […]
Review: Slight Fourteen Considers Friendship Over the Years
Something about Fourteen, a drama about the unique connection between close friends over time, feels downright retro. It’s not a period piece, but it’s as if it was made in another […]
Review: Up From the Streets is New Orleans’ Massive Music History in One Heartfelt Documentary
Subtitled New Orleans: The City of Music, Up From the Streets is a documentary from Michael Murphy (Make It Funky!) that attempts nothing short of giving a primer on the entire […]