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I have reserved the word “great” for just a few films but am not hesitant at using the adjective with Christopher Storer’s comedy-drama series, which deserves its numerous awards—Emmy, Golden Globe. I have seen all three seasons, and not since All in the Family and MASH have, I been so moved while laughing out loud, …
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 …
Note: toward the end there is a spoiler. Too often the third film of a franchise is a disappointment, but in this prequel to the two “Quiet Place” films, this is not the case. The director of the quirky Nicolas Cage film Pig, Michael Sarnoski directs and is one of three scriptwriters (along with …
Berkley area Japanese American Ben & best friend, lesbian Alice, follows his ex-girlfriend Miko to NYC where he learns a lesson or two.
The story of journalists, chief of whom is Maria Ressa, waging an uphill battle in the Philippines against Pres. Dutertes & his murderous “War on Drugs,” made very difficult by the government’s lies on social media about its critics being “Fake News.”
Originally posted a year ago, I am bringing up from the archives. Here are several films worth watching during the upcoming anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers. Click on the title to see my longer reviews. Note that since I put this together several years ago, I’ve added two films at the end. …
To read my review of this film version of Barack Obama’s early life, click on the film title.
Writer/director Kitty Green, hitherto a documentarian, tackles in her first feature film the theme of power, similar to that in Bombshell, but in a far less sensational way. Indeed her film is so prosaic that after a half hour one must force oneself to keep one’s attention focused upon the shots of humdrum procedures common …
Uncut Gems is the story of a gambling-addicted NYC Jewish jeweler entrapped in his dangerous schemes.
At a NYC art museum where a bomb explosion kills his mother, her young son survives & steals the painting she admired, a work that will greatly complicate his adult life.