All posts tagged "Drama"
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Jim Batts | December 12, 2024
THE END (2024) – Review
As people gather from different corners of the globe to reunite with their families during this holiday season,...
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Jim Batts | November 21, 2024
BLITZ (2024) – Review
With a big holiday mere days away. this week’s new film reflects on families that can’t be together,...
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Cate Marquis | November 1, 2024
ANORA – Review
Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner ANORA follows a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch...
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Cate Marquis | October 11, 2024
THE APPRENTICE – Review
It is not the old TV show but Donald Trump’s “apprenticeship” under his attorney and mentor Roy Cohn,...
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Cate Marquis | September 13, 2024
SPEAK NO EVIL – Review
In the chilling thriller/horror drama SPEAK NO EVIL, James McAvoy delivers another striking performance as character who shifts...
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Cate Marquis | August 23, 2024
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES – Review
Jason Schwartzman plays a cantor who has lost his singing voice, his wife and maybe even hope, whose...
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Jim Batts | August 22, 2024
THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT – Review
Okay all you music biopic fans, just keep reading the title past the first two words. This should...
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Cate Marquis | August 16, 2024
SING SING – Review
SING SING is not about vocalizing but a powerful, moving drama about the transformative power of art in...
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Jim Batts | August 8, 2024
IT ENDS WITH US – Review
It’s only been a couple of weeks since the Summer’s biggest box office smash, y’know those two “fightin’...
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Cate Marquis | August 1, 2024
AMERICA – Review
AMERICA, despite the title, is not set in the U.S. nor is it about America, Instead, it is...
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Mark Glass | July 23, 2024
MIDNIGHT TAXI – Review
First of all, if you’re a vintage film buff who has already seen 1937’s MIDNIGHT TAXI, this new...
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Mark Glass | June 25, 2024
HOPELESS – Review
I’ve praised many Korean crime and action exports recently. HOPELESS will not be one of them, perhaps due...
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Jim Batts | June 13, 2024
TUESDAY – Review
Maybe it’s a bit of unintended “synergy”, or just a result of a scrambled post-strike release schedule, but...
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Cate Marquis | May 17, 2024
BACK TO BLACK – Review
Talented singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s tragic life was already the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, AMY in 2015, made...
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Cate Marquis | May 14, 2024
NOWHERE SPECIAL – Review
James Norton plays an Irish single father of a 4-year-old boy in director Uberto Pasolini’s touching, bittersweet drama...
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Mark Glass | April 29, 2024
NEW LIFE – Review
NEW LIFE is a drama that opens with a young woman, Jessie (Hayley Erin), running through the woods,...
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Cate Marquis | April 26, 2024
WE GROWN NOW – Review
In a touching portrait of childhood friendship, the child-focused WE GROWN NOW captures the magic and innocence of...
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Jim Batts | April 25, 2024
CHALLENGERS – Review
This weekend brings a unique hybrid, a mixing of genres that has happened in the past but is...