The Fits (2015)
When Toni switches from boxing to a girls’ dance drill team at a community center, each of the older girls mysteriously comes down with the “fits.” In her desire to fit in, what of Toni?
July 2016 Journal
In this issue: Genius, The BFG, Warcraft, Maggie’s Plan, Free State of Jones, Finding Dory, The Fits, Me Before You, Tarzan, Popstar, and more.
Film Capsules June (+ May) 2016
Sorry, May was such a busy month that I completely forgot about Film Capsules! Some further down the list have left the art house theaters they were released in, but should soon be available on disk or streaming video. The titles are embedded with hyperlinks that will take you to the full review at visualparables.org. …
Touch (2024)
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s film is for those who love a star-crossed lover’s story. Interestingly enough, it unfolds not in the director’s native Iceland but in London and Hiroshima. We follow this story in two time levels across the decades, starting with a present day old man and flashing back to the end of the …
Twisters (2024)
Director Lee Isaac Chung’s disaster film is about as thrilling as it can get, far more entertaining than a screen full of wisecracking Marvel superheroes. Its love story is predictable, though be forewarned to watch closely the last scene where it diverges from the usual romantic pattern. Though following in the path of Jan de …
Asphalt City (2023)
French-born director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has gifted us with the most harrowing parable about an ambulance medic since Martin Scorsese’ 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. That title fits the newer film as well, with so many of the victims treated by the two medics in this story dying before or just after arriving at the hospital, …
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Autobiographical story about a Black boy largely raised by the owner of his rooming house & its residents, based on a play.
Maestro (2023)
The film is more about Leonard Bernstein’s music & sexuality & his relationship to wife Felicia Montealegre than a biographical film.
Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story (2020)
The amazing story of Stan Brock & his Remote Area Medical that has brought medical care to thousands of needy people in the US & overseas.
War Sailor (2022)
2 Norwegian friends are seperated from home when they join he merchant marine & WW 2 breaks out, leaving loved ones to the Nazi occupiers & the Allied bombers.