Perfect Days
The IMDB description of Perfect Days reads: "A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to rock music." Not exactly an exciting premise for a film, but that is mostly…
Golden Years
In this Swiss comedy, Alice (Esther Gemsch) and Peter (Stefan Kurt) are  moving into the next phase of their lives together with Peter's retirement. As a retirement gift, their kids…
Driving Madeleine
Driving Madeleine is one of those small films that takes you by surprise. So no spoilers here! Â The main characters are Charles (Dany Boon), a taxi driver obsessed with his…
All of Us Strangers
This tender drama is entirely soaked in loneliness and loss and love. Adam (Andrew Scott, "Sherlock", "Fleabag") is a screenwriter with writer's block who finds inspiration in his painful past…
Fallen Leaves
Finland's entry for the 2023 Oscars is one of my favorite films of the year. This romantic dramedy from Aki Kaurismäki feels like a mash-up of a color-drained Wes Anderson and…
The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant)
I love to cook and I love to watch movies about the love cooking. And The Taste of Things is probably the most delicious movie about that love since the…
The Boys in the Boat
Just in time for holiday viewing George Clooney brings us a good old fashioned crowd-pleaser! The Boys in the Boat tells the true story of the underdog rowing team at…
Poor Things
I have a favorite film of 2023! I've been a big fan of director Yorgos Lanthimos since The Lobster. His films are always convention shattering. And Poor Things continues that…
The Banality of The Zone of Interest
German philosopher Hannah Arendt famously said in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil", which she wrote after covering the trial of the Nazi war…
Concrete Utopia
Korean cinema has long been fascinated by class distinctions. Parasite and Snowpiercer both leaned heavily into the fact that society is unfairly separated by social status. In Uhm Tae-Hwa's dystopian…
Movies about Women Who Leave: Shayda and Priscilla
This time of year, I watch a lot of movies at once and sometimes it seems that two of them are on the same wavelength, despite being very different stories.…
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
The main reason I viewed this film was my teenage love for the rock band King Crimson. I can't say I kept up with them over the years, and I…
Dream Scenario
Nicolas Cage is not an actor who is easily pigeon-holed. From comedies like Valley Girl and Raising Arizona to romantic leads like Moonstruck to scenery-chewing flicks like Con Air, to…
Saltburn
Writer/Director Emerald Fennell came out of the gate with a bang with her Oscar winning film Promising Young Woman. It was easily my favorite film of 2020. So I was…
The Holdovers
This holiday movie is one of the best yet! It reunites director Alexander Payne (Election, Nebraska) with Paul Giamatti (Love & Mercy, 12 Years a Slave) an actor who gave…