Queen at Sea
There have been many films over the years to deal with aging, and specifically with dementia, with many too maudlin to consider but the occasional gem shining through. Queen at [...]
Clayface
James Gunn and Peter Safran have had several projects in the relaunched DCU, both on television and in the theatre. None of those projects have particularly ignited the passions of [...]
Animals
Akira Kurosawa once made a film called High and Low, based on a novel, King’s Ransom, by the author Evan Hunter. In 2025, Spike Lee retold the story, as Highest [...]
Verity
Verity, based on the book by Colleen Hoover - there is your first clue as to what to expect from this mess of a film - is the new film [...]
Sheep in the Box
Hirokazu Kore-Eda is one of Japan’s great film makers, but with Sheep in a Box, he has made a rare misstep. This is not a bad film, but it is a [...]
Tony
Tony is based on a single summer in the life of author and chef Anthony Bourdain. Set in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the mid 1970s, Dominic Sessa plays the title character as [...]
The Rivals of Amziah King
The Rivals of Amziah King is a film that almost defies easy categorization, mixing as it does elements of crime drama, westerns, musicals, horror, thriller, romance and slow cinema character [...]
The Samurai and the Prisoner
The Samurai and The Prisoner, based on the book by Honobu Yonezawa, is the latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and it is, in every real sense, a masterpiece. Based on the [...]
Cookie Queens
Cookie Queen is a charming and intimate look at four girls selling cookies for the Girl Scouts of America. They range in age from five to twelve, and come from [...]
Rose of Nevada
Some films are wholly original. Rose of Nevada seems to want to believe it is original but it is not, and that is fine. Instead, it is a pastiche of [...]