Chasing Chasing Amy (2023)
This review was part of my coverage of the [...]
Drama
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
It is a fact that the two most destructive forces of mankind are greed and racism. These two things have born more chaos and death than any disease or famine that you can name. And yes, It has been, whether we like it or not, part of the make-up of American history almost from the […]
Blog: Killing Connie Casserole: How Stonewall Vilified ‘The Boys in the Band’
Between 1968, when playwright Mart Crowley wrote his off-Broadway hit “The Boys and the Band” and 1970, when William Friedkin turned it into a movie, there were the Stonewall riots. For the health and well-being of the movie version, this was the worst thing that could have happened. In June of 1969, decades of abuse, […]
Afire (2023)
Here in the third week of July, when fully 90% of the moviegoing public is going to give their love to The Barbenheimer (I did), it’s unlikely that any will pass them up for a quiet character-study from Germany about a potential loser and his friends trapped by a wild fire. This is the film […]
Oppenheimer (2023)
The first time that I ever saw J. Robert Oppenheimer was in the famous black and white film in which he recounted the first test of the atomic bomb. It is the moment we all remember – his whole face in the camera, recalling the reaction to the test by the scientists and military, called […]
Sound of Freedom (2023)
I arrived at Sound of Freedom, the latest Christian booster drama a few weeks ago with a certain expectation wrapped in negativity that comes with experience. Since the boom of this religious-based genre began in the middle part of the last decade, I have put myself through a fair amount of these films, and my […]
Revoir Paris (2023)
The other day my local news reported a memorial for a mass shooting. I asked my wife a startling question, “Which mass shooting are they talking about?” She didn’t know. There have been so many lately that I can’t tell one from another. It is startling to think that they have become part of our […]
Daliland (2023)
I have seen John Walsh’s Daliland twice. The first time, admittedly, it went over my head as I struggled to figure out what I had missed. What is this movie trying to say about the 20th century’s most eccentric artistic mind? The second time, I think I understood it slightly better but I was nowhere […]
Flamin’ Hot (2023)
Ever since Everything, Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar for Best Picture, I’ve been begging for more original content – more films that aren’t sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes, reimaginings, or another universe-building collection of cacophonous hoo-ha. I can’t call Flamin’ Hot – the story of the guy who invented Flaming Hot Cheetos – the most original story […]
