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Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
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Animal Kingdom (2024)
I’ll admit, I don’t normally think of a Sci-Fi fantasy coming out of France, but . . . here we are. Tim Cailly’s Animal Kingdom, which got a lot of kudos when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last yearworks because it takes it oddball premise and attaches it to a scenario that we […]
Late Night With the Devil
Late Night With the Devil is about as fascinating as it is frustrating. It’s the same problem that I had with GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE but, even at its flaws, I liked this one a lot better because even with its flaws, it is wildly entertaining and features a star-making performance by David Dastmalchian. Framed as […]
They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those filmmakers whose filmography would be the envy of any amount of unsuccessful but still aspiring young directors struggling to make a name for themselves. His best-known work is 1992’s BELLE EPOQUE which brought him the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. I admire that film a great deal, […]
God + Country (2024)
I have been very quick to knock any film for having a preaching-to-the-choir narrative, whether it is on the right or the left. It’s hard to both-sides an issue anymore and keep the public’s attention. Everyone, it seems, wants to hear what they want to hear. The struggle comes in making that narrative at least […]
Vishniac (2024)
It is a little hard to walk into a documentary about The Holocaust anymore and not wonder what the latest entry is bringing to the conversation. Holocaust documentaries are a crowded field; essential but crowded. For me, the most successful are those that don’t cover the same ground. The focus on the individual is not […]
