A drug addicted but caring teacher forms a friendship with a female student that is beneficial to both of them.
Half Nelson (2006)
Shortcomings (2023)
Berkley area Japanese American Ben & best friend, lesbian Alice, follows his ex-girlfriend Miko to NYC where he learns a lesson or two.
Theater Camp (2023)
When the head of an upper NY theater camp goes into a coma, the staff & students work hard on a musical play to save the camp.
Revisiting LET ME HAVE MY SON
As many of you know, I occasionally like to revisit a film that I have reviewed. Sometimes this is because of new information about it or its maker, which is the case in regard to Cristobal (Cris) Krusen’s film about the institutionalization of his son Daniel, Let Me Have My Son. …
Afire (2023)
A writer whose 2nd novel stinks retreats with a friend to a seaside cabin to revise it where they become involved with a girl already there.
Two Tickets to Greece (2022)
A shy woman at odds with a flamboyant friend from college days sets out for Greece, with many a flareup along the way, becoming more complicated when they encounter a third woman.
Dreamin’ Wild (2023)
In 1978 recorded an album went nowhere but 30 years later a record producer reissued it & with help from a NYT reporter, the album caught on.
Tiger Within (2020)
In L.A. an elderly Holocaust survivor befriends a homeless Goth teenager from Ohio despite the swastika on the back of her jacket.
Oppenheimer (2023)
The personal story of Robert Oppenheimer from his student days to hi days at Los Alamos to the Manhattan Project to the revocation of his security clearance.
Barbie (20023)
This fantasy based on the Barbie Doll satirizes the patriarchy as Barbie travels to the Real World & is transformed in the process.