My first theatrical 2021 release is a science-fiction film featuring the stars of other sci-fi and fantasy films. I love science-fiction more than just about any other genre, so I am perhaps overly critical when projects don’t deliver what I […]
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The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Another recent independent feature that I like is the (un)romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Gallery. It is another New York story with young people looking for, and largely failing to find, romantic happiness in the Big Apple. We’ve all seen this […]
Continue reading »Still Here (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
I’m not a huge fan of independent movies but when they are done well they are as good or better than most Hollywood product. Still Here is a strong example of that; it tackles a difficult, harrowing subject with honesty […]
Continue reading »Resistance (2020) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Movies can, and often do, reveal things about our history that we were never taught in school. This is one of them, and the lesson is that the great mime, Marcel Marceau, actually helped rescue hundreds, if not thousands of […]
Continue reading »Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) ☆ ☆
Now here is another alien movie — because Sonic is from another world, you know — with a big budget, and a big star, and yet it still receives the same rating as the low-budget independent flick Useless Humans. That’s because Useless […]
Continue reading »Useless Humans (2020) ☆ ☆
Few genres of films ignite my interest as much as science fiction, especially when they involve aliens or the threatened destruction of Earth. I can’t help it, it’s just what floats my boat. So when this minor little low-budget independent […]
Continue reading »Reaction to the 2020 Academy Award Nominations
The day of the year I so look forward to is here, the day of the Oscar nominations. I have had a tradition for decades of compiling my list of predictions for those nominations (I love the Oscars) and then […]
Continue reading »The Way Back (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Sports stories often aim for redemption as their primary goal, whether on a field or off. This film continues that tradition, yet also subverts it in an intriguing, and ultimately, very honest way. It plays like an urban version of Hoosiers, […]
Continue reading »Nomadland (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is one of those hard-to-review movies for me. It is a critically acclaimed adaptation of a non-fiction book, anchored by a two-time Oscar-winning actress, filmed across seven states, offering a unique, challenging, largely unknown perspective of modern American life. […]
Continue reading »Dolittle (2020) ☆ ☆
Loving animals and animal movies as I do, you might think I would be immediately smitten with a movie about a man who can talk to animals and who treasures them above people. But I have always felt ambivalent about […]
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