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.…
Air
Sometimes a shoe is just a shoe… until Michael Jordan steps in it. That’s the crux of this feel-good movie based on the true marketing backstory of Nike’s iconic Air…
Maestro
Maestro is a very ambitious film. Co-written and directed by and starring Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born, Silver Linings Playbook), it attempts to tell the story of Leonard Bernstein,…
Big Flicks on a Little Screen: Nyad and The Killer
It's amazing how quickly big movies are coming to streaming services these days. Sometimes they haven't even made it to the local theater before I get that Netflix notice that…
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese is unquestionably one of our great American filmmakers. But why does he have to make all his films so damn long? The Wolf of Wall Street was 3…
A Million Miles Away
A Million Miles Away provides a great opportunity for all to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-Oct. 15). The two-hour flick, streaming on Prime Video, tells the story of…
Between Two Worlds
Juliette Binoche stars in this French drama in what initially seems like an uncharacteristic role for her. Marianne is a down on her luck woman looking for a menial job…
The Hill
I'm generally a sucker for a good sports drama based on an "incredible true story" (as the poster says). But there's something about The Hill that just falls flat, despite…
Golda
1973, Israel is in a fight for its very existence. At the helm is a very tough little Wisconsin-raised woman named Golda Meir who will win the wars being waged…
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…
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…
Review: The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg knows storytelling. So it's really no surprise that The Spielbergs - er, I mean The Fabelmans - is a good yarn. It's a semi-autobiographical drama that dives into…
Review: Breaking
Watching this "based on a true story" drama, you can't help but think back to several other films about decent men taking hostages because the system is horribly unfair to…