They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for August, 2022
Breaking (2022)
Watching Abi Darmas Corbin’s bank heist thriller Breaking, it is hard for your brain not to travel back nearly half a century to Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon. Both films are about otherwise descent men pushed to brink, who recklessly hold up a bank in the middle of the afternoon busy hours and find themselves […]
Free Chol Soo Lee (2022)
Ten years ago, when news hit that Rodney King had died of an accidental drowning in Rialto California, I remember one of the local talk show hosts in my home of Birmingham, Alabama questioning why King never became more of a community leader. Why did he not take his fame and bolster it into something […]
L’Atalante | The Pod Bay Doors Podcast, Season 5, Episode #237
In this episode, Doug introduces Jerry to one of the greatest movies you’ve (probably) never heard of: Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante from 1934. Although Vigo would not live to make another feature, he died near the end of production of TB at the age of 29, this work would go on to inspire the likes of […]
Summering (2022)
The opening scenes of Summering got on my nerves. If there’s anything that irritates me it is yet another movie about a group of friends on the cusp of growing up who are experiencing that tipping point before a measure of maturity becomes their beast of burden. After this “nothing will ever be the same again.” […]
Girl Picture (2022)
I learned early in my life, thanks to the late-great World Book encyclopedia, that there are some parts of the northern world in which the sun never rises above the horizon for several months out the year. The closer that you are to the Arctic Circle, the longer the period will last. This is something […]
I Love My Dad (2022)
James Morosini’s I Love My Dad is a wonderful comedy of escalating embarrassment. It takes a simple idea and balloons it up into broad comedy so tense that, during the climax, I almost couldn’t look at the screen. It involves a father trying to connect with his son by creating an online persona so they can […]
Hypochondriac (2022)
Addison Heimann’s psychological horror drama Hypochondriac is the kind of movie that, as a critic, I find it difficult to describe in words, you watch it, you don’t explain it. That might work in terms of the movie but it does not bode well for a review. I could almost stop here and say, don’t […]
