Kansas natives Lee and Muriel leave their family’s longtime family homestead upon his return from the Korean War, to begin a new life in San Diego. Back then, land and...

Scott McGehee’s and David Siegel’s new film “The Friend” is yet another of those that has been mis-promoted by its studio in an effort to sell tickets. From the trailer,...

Okay, try this one on for size. In the wake of a family tragedy, a disgruntled, middle-aged professor moves from his home in England to Argentina to teach English at...

Ever since I saw “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” back in 1989, I’ve been an admirer of director Steven Soderbergh. (In fact, I ranked that film at #2 on my list...

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho shot to prominence when his 2019 film “Parasite” became the first foreign-language film to win the Best Picture Oscar – 91 years after the first...

Last year, the Motion Picture Academy rewarded the sweeping epic “Oppenheimer” with most of its top honors. I realize the academy doesn’t often like to repeat itself, but I believe...

Rubens Paiva was a Brazilian congressman who vehemently opposed the military coup and takeover of the Brazilian government in 1964. The dictatorship (which lasted into the 1980s) was at its...

I thought 2023 was a strong year for Hollywood. But it doesn’t come close to 2024. Consider the output was so powerful, I had to leave off “Nickel Boys,” “Good...

Halfway through the 1972 Summer Olympics – held in Germany for the first time since WWII – militant Palestinian terrorist group Black September killed two members of the Israeli Olympic...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s films have repeatedly run afoul of his government’s restrictive censorship rules. (Yes, I know. What doesn’t, in Iran?) He has been sentenced to prison time, a...