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Director Ty West’s hard-R film is only for fans of the horror genre, several of its gory scnes being very graphic. It is part of a trilogy—X, created in 2022, and Pearl, also in that year. I have not sen the others, although I know that all deal with some aspect of filmmaking and the …
I love interspecies films such as Fly Away, and Brazilian director David Schurmann’s film is a delightful addition to the genre. Based on a true story, it celebrates how kindness can result in a friendship that spans hundreds of miles of ocean. Joao Perei de Souza (Jean Reno) and wife Maria (Adriana Barraza) are a fisher family …
Faith-and-film expert the Rev. Edward McNulty shares his memories of going South in 1964 to help Black colleagues campaign for civil rights.
Director Greg Kwedar’s film introduces us to the innovative program founded at New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility located in Ossining,NY– the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA). The script was inspired by John H. Richardson’s 2005 article in Esquire Magazine “The Sing Sing Follies” about a small group ofincarcerated men who since 1996 have been …
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 …
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 …
Director Oz Perkins probes the “madness is in their heart” in an unforgettable way in this film that combines horror with FBI procedural. Most critics have pointed out the silimilarity to another great horror film, The Silence of the Lambs, in that both feature a young female FBI agent. This time our protagonist is discovered …
Omar Mukhtar This film directed by the little known Syrian-American Moustapha Akkad depicts a freedom fighter who struggled against Moussolini’s brutal colonial forces between the two worlds wars in Libya in 1929 to 1931. The funding came from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, so Akkad was able to hire Anthony Quinn to portray the Arab Muslim leader …
(Edda) I have now watched two films centering on events that took place during Italain dicttor Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime. Both are available on YouTube—2005’s Mussolini’s Daughter and and 1980’s The Lion in the Desert. Both are longer than usual but well worth watching for their historicity. The first film is an Italian TV production …
Writer-director Christy Hall’s film, shot almost entirely within the confines of a NYC Yellow Cab pulls off a seemingly impossible task—keeping us interested entirely by means of a conversation that moves from the casual to the intimate. There are no chases or crashes, other than a thruway accident that brings traffic to a standstill for …