Film Review - Crime 101 In 1985, director William Friedkin gave us “To Live and Die in L.A.” – a police procedural that wasn’t a big hit at the box...

Film Review - Wuthering Heights With its themes of unrequited love, accumulation of vast wealth, and revenge, English author Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights” would seem to lend itself...

Film Review - No Other Choice Man-su is a husband, father, and successful businessman. A lifelong occupational safety manager for one of South Korea’s major paper manufacturers, Man-su appears to...

Film Review - Dead Man’s Wire On a cold February morning in 1977, land developer Tony Kiritsis walked into the offices of Meridian Mortgage in Indianapolis and promptly wired a...

Film Review - The Testament of Ann Lee Ann Lee was known as the founder, and first leader, of the Shakers, an evangelical religious sect formed in England during the...

With the Covid letdown well behind us, 2025 turned out to be the third strong year in a row for the motion picture industry. Consider that I had to leave...

Within the first five seconds of Bradley Cooper’s new film, “Is This Thing On?”, Alex and Tess decide to end their marriage. We soon learn our protagonists have been married...

Hollywood has churned out a lot of music biopics in recent years (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Rocket Man”), and one great time capsule of a moment when an influential singer rocked the...

Marty Mauser is the kind of guy everybody hates. Cocky and brash, but also smart and determined, Marty is the type who will screw over his own grandmother just to...

In 1977 Brazil, Marcel’s little yellow Volkswagen Beetle is running on empty. In the middle of seemingly nowhere, he spots a gas station (and a full-service gas station, given the...