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Marty Supreme
Set against the constantly moving backdrop of 1952, Marty Supreme is a gritty, often exhausting character study of ambition, ego, and obsession. The film follows Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet, Hostiles), a fictious narcissistic visionary who believes he is the chosen one to bring table tennis to the American masses. Marty’s conviction fuels a globe‑hopping journey…
- 2025
- Drama
The Rip
The Rip opens with the killing of a Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT) captain, and the question of who pulled the trigger hangs over everything that follows. Was she dirty? Was the unit compromised? Internal Affairs and the FBI think the TNT is corrupt so, they are doing interviews to shut them down. Into this pressure…
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery continues the franchise’s tradition of assembling an excellent ensemble cast, with Daniel Craig (Knives Out) as Detective Benoit Blanc leading the mystery with his familiar Southern charm. This time, he shares the spotlight with Josh O’Connor, who plays Father Jud Duplenticy, a young priest with a violent…
Blue Moon
Blue Moon is a bittersweet, bordering on sad, dialogue-heavy biopic of Lorenz Hart, the 1930-era lyricist who worked with Richard Rogers (Rogers and Hart). The high point of Lorenz Hart’s partnership with Rogers is writing the lyrics of Blue Moon in 1934. The song Blue Moon is an American standard that everyone still recognizes. Due…
Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands goes all out in this ninth entry in the Predator franchise, and it is pushing it in a different direction. This time we are far in the future following Dek, a runt Predator with something to prove. Dek heads to the planet Genna to take down the supposedly unkillable apex beast, the Kalisk….
- 2025
- Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Eternity
Eternity takes an idea – life after death – a potentially heavy idea and turns it into something light, funny, and surprisingly enjoyable. The story begins when Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) dies and arrives at the big train station in the sky where everyone goes to choose their eternity. Her main dilemma is choosing between eternity…
Chocolat
Chocolat is still a remarkably meaningful and stylish film 25 years after its release. Set in a small fictious French village in 1959, the story follows Vianne (Juliette Binoche), and her young daughter Anouk as the two wander from town to town driven on by a family tradition of restlessness. When Vianne and Anouk settle…
Hamnet
Hamnet is an outstanding, emotionally charged drama set in Shakespeare’s world. However, this film is not a story about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), instead, the film centers on Agnes, Shakespeare’s wife. Jessie Buckley is brilliant as Agnes, who is a commanding presence in nearly every scene. While Paul Mescal offers a restrained, thoughtful take on…
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The wonderful actress Rose Byrne (Platonic, Physical, Bridesmaids, Neighbors) is the only focus of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Rose plays a therapist named Linda – a stressed out therapist. She is home alone with an elementary school aged child who refuses to eat and must be tube fed. Her Naval husband (Christian…
- 2025
- Drama
The Penguin Lessons
The Penguin Lessons is a quietly powerful and unexpectedly timely film set against the turbulent backdrop of 1976 Argentina, a nation sliding from democracy into military dictatorship. Though the film never names General Jorge Rafael Videla or speaks of the regime’s atrocities, the atmosphere of fear and censorship hums ominously in the background. This restraint…
- 2025
- Drama
My Dead Friend Zoe
My Dead Friend Zoe is a quiet film that balances grief, humor, and the lingering weight of trauma with grace. On the surface, it’s about Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), an Afghanistan war veteran dealing with PTSD. However, the film’s heart, is about grief—and the strange ways we hold onto the people we’ve lost. Merit regularly talks…
Godzilla Minue One
Godzilla Minus One Godzilla Minus One is definitely not a Hollywood movie; it’s a bit too hokey for Hollywood. This is a Japanese film set in Japan at the end of WW2. The film has a fair-to-good Godzilla destroying cities and throwing ships and trains, which one expects. But then there is a melodramatic story…
- 2023
- Science Fiction, Horror, Action
The Great Lillian Hall
Jessica Lange portrays a much-loved theater actress in the film “The Great Lillian Hall.” Lillian Hall begins to show signs of dementia during rehearsals of the Chekhov play in which she stars. As Lillian Hall accepts this next phase in life, she reflects upon her life and begins to regret some of it. Ongoing with…
- 2024
- Drama
Two Movies & Two Series
The Holdovers: A Movie A superb Paul Giamatti vehicle. Paul Giamatti is a tedious, sourpuss Classics teacher, Paul Hunham, at a boarding school in New England. This movie, along with Sideways in 2004, will be remembered as classic Paul Giamatti films. Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the kitchen manager, Mary. The holdover student is Angus…
- 2026
- Comedy and Dramas
Quiz Lady
THE QUIZ LADY Writing a review of Quiz Lady I realize I’m competing with Google’s AI Bard (which I like the best right now), Bing Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.? Those “AI beings,” do write movie reviews well and quickly. However, they lack substance. AI’s have no depth; no concern with minor characters, none of the human…
- 2023
- Comedy