Hotel Mumbai (2019)
The true story how in Mumbai the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel’s staff helped save many of its guests from Muslim terrorists.
The Girl King (2015)
Raised as a prince, Queen Kristina of Sweden runs into opposition when she refuses to marry & has an affair with a handmaiden.
Stan and Ollie (2018)
The last year of the comedy team of Stan & Ollie is depicted, which consisted of a tour of Great Britain & Ireland.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Murder & mayhem check in with the guests at a once grand motel, most with dark secrets & seeking a stash of cast hidden 10 years earlier in a room.
Change in the Air (2018)
Terrific movie set in a small town. Click the headline to read my entire review.
It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993)
This fascinating documentary pays tribute to film genius Orson Welles, thanks to the three men listed as directors of the film, the late Richard Wilson (who had worked with Welles), Bill Krohn, and Myron Meisel. Welles was busy, after making his masterful Citizen Kane, editing The Magnificent Ambersons as well as starring in Journey into Fear. …
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Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
If you like old fashioned romances set in the Internet Age, you should love director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s novel of the same name. Many of the Asians in this film are rich, filthy rich, and, to those of us who would agree with the Galilean prophet that “it is more difficult …
1945 (2017)
When two Orthodox Jews, at the end of WW 2, get off a train at a small Hungarian village & load 2 mysterious boxes in a wagon, the villagers are alarmed and filled with fear and guilt.
Annihilation (2018)
An all female team of soldiers is sent into a Florida wilderness area to discover the cause of the strange & deadly infection.
A Quiet Place (2018)
A family tries to survive on a farm by not making a sound that might attract blind monsters with acute hearing.