All posts tagged "Drama"
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Jim Batts | November 30, 2023
EILEEN – Review
Finally, we’re entering into the first weekend of the final month of 2023. So naturally many of the...
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Cate Marquis | November 17, 2023
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT – SLIFF Review
ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT offers a visually beautiful mediation on childhood, family and love, that begins...
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Cate Marquis | November 17, 2023
MAY DECEMBER – Review
Director Todd Haynes re-teams with Julianne Moore, star of his Douglas Sirk-style melodrama FAR FROM HEAVEN, for another...
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Cate Marquis | October 27, 2023
ANATOMY OF A FALL – Review
ANATOMY OF A FALL begins with a deadly fall but another kind of fall is much of the...
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Jim Batts | October 20, 2023
NYAD – Review
Sometimes we just need to see a flick that gets us motivated. To get us off our “duff”…after...
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Mark Glass | October 17, 2023
SEA BEYOND – TV Series Review
“The Sea Beyond” is an Italian TV drama, mostly set in a detention facility for teens who’ve run...
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Jim Batts | October 13, 2023
THE BURIAL – Review
End-of-the-year movie awards season is in full swing as we see the release of a film focused on...
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Mark Glass | September 20, 2023
“Queens: Season 1” – TV Series Review
The extent to which you may enjoy the Israeli TV series “Queens: Season 1″ depends on expectations from...
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Mark Glass | September 12, 2023
APORIA – Review
Time-travel tales always raise logical questions about inconsistencies and effects. One of the tropes is that everything will...
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Mark Glass | September 6, 2023
“The Bride” (“La Sposa”) – TV Series Review
Italian TV gives us “The Bride” (“La Sposa”), a dramatic miniseries about a woman enduring many types of...
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Jim Batts | August 25, 2023
THE HILL (2023) – Review
Two true-life sports movies opening on the same weekend! Oh yeah, it was bound to happen but we’re...
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Cate Marquis | August 24, 2023
GOLDA – Review
Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first women prime minister, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in GOLDA....
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Cate Marquis | August 15, 2023
PASSAGES – Review
PASSAGES is a steamy tale of a romantic triangle in which a Paris-based German filmmaker (Franz Rogowski) strays...
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Cate Marquis | July 28, 2023
EARTH MAMA – Review
Sundance break-out EARTH MAMA spotlights to struggles of a pregnant Black young woman who is trying to regain...
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Cate Marquis | July 24, 2023
OPPENHEIMER – Review
“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” is the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita that...
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Cate Marquis | July 7, 2023
TIGER WITHIN – Review
In TIGER WITHIN, a Holocaust survivor (Ed Asner, in his final role) befriends a homeless teen (Margot Josefsohn)...
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Cate Marquis | July 7, 2023
THE LESSON – Review
They say never meet your heroes, and the literary thriller THE LESSON offers a case in point, where...
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Cate Marquis | June 23, 2023
PAST LIVES – Review
In South Korea, two close childhood friends, a boy and a girl, both nearly 12, are separated when...