Ballad of a Small Player
Watching Colin Farrell is always a pleasure, even in a not so great film, as is the case with this little flick from Edward Berger, the director of one of…
Anniversary
Talk about the daughter-in-law from hell! In this frightening political thriller, a family is destroyed when a woman with an agenda enters their lives. The film begins at the parents'…
A House of Dynamite
Academy Awards winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) is no stranger to political thrillers set within the US government apparatus. And in her latest she places…
Köln 75
This thoroughly entertaining girl power film is based on a very improbable true story. In 1975, against enormous odds, German teenager Vera Brandes (Mala Emde) brought American pianist Keith Jarrett…
The Summer Book
This adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel stars Glenn Close as a grandmother who heads to the family's cabin on an isolated island in a Finnish archipelago for the summer with…
Chaperone
This sleek little indie is set in rural Hawai’i and features an entirely AANHPI (Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander) cast. The story centers on an ethical dilemma that 29-year-old…
One Battle After Another
Very loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel "Vineland," Paul Thomas Anderson's (Licorice Pizza, The Master) latest film is a seriously entertaining action dramedy perfectly timed to our current political…
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
This is the first big, bold, beautiful film of the year (that I have seen anyway.) It's a thoroughly odd romantic fantasy set in a surreal world from Kogonada, the…
Death of a Ladies’ Man
Gabriel Byrne stars as Samuel O'Shea, an aging poetry professor and ladies' man who finds himself adrift, first by discovering his much younger wife in their bed with her lover,…
Waltzing with Brando
Based on true events, Waltzing with Brando tells the story of young architect Bernard Judge’s (John Heder, Napoleon Dynamite) relationship with the iconic star, as he tries to build his…
Quickie review: The Thursday Murder Club
Sometimes Netflix has just what you need for a night in! This adaptation of Richard Osman's bestselling mystery is the perfect flick to take your mind off the crazy world…
Highest to Lowest
This film marks Denzel Washington's and Spike Lee's fifth collaboration. They've done some of their best work together, and though it's been 19 years since they were on opposite sides…
Drowning Dry (Seses)
In this Latvian-Lithuanian film, two couples and their kids head to a cabin in the country following a mixed martial arts fight where one of the dads, Lukas (Paulius Markevičius),…
Shoshana
Director Michael Winterbottom (The Wedding Guest, The Trip series) centers his "based on a true story" film on Shoshana Borochov (Irina Starshenbaum), a Russian-Jewish woman living in British Mandate Palestine…
Eddington
Writer-Director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) has a penchant for making his audiences uncomfortable. And that's pretty much what he does for about two and half hours with his latest film…