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Mar 19, 2024
Film Review: ‘Carol Doda Topless at the Condor’
Just when it seems that San Francisco’s dope, sex and rock ’n’ roll scene in the 1960s has been covered from every conceivable angle,...
Mar 12, 2024
Film Review: ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’
Consider The American Society of Magical Negroes a live-wire conversation-starter of a movie title that automatically opens up a pertinent social issue discussion.
Writer-director Koby...
Mar 5, 2024
Film Review: ‘Cabrini’ as Lady Liberty
Aside from specialty items by religious film producers, it’s unusual for general audiences to find major releases that concern themselves with spiritual matters and...
Feb 27, 2024
Film Review: ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Goes Nowhere
A few questions pop up about Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls.
The film has writing problems. As cobbled together by veteran producer-director-writer Coen (Fargo, The Big...
Jan 16, 2024
Noir City 21: A Cinematic Journey into the Depths of Film Noir
Noir City 21, an annual film noir festival hosted by the Film Noir Foundation, features 12 double features of English and foreign-language noirs from the 1940s-'60s, including rare titles such as "Without Pity" and "Cairo Station."
Jan 9, 2024
‘The Zone of Interest’ is a Docudrama of Pure Malignance
"The Zone of Interest," a film adaptation of Martin Amis' novel, explores the life of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex, through metaphor and oblique references to the horrors of the Holocaust.
Dec 19, 2023
Jeffrey Wright Delivers in Hilarious Satire ‘American Fiction’
In the provocative new movie American Fiction, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a university professor and novelist, finds himself in a pair of pertinent modern-day cultural predicaments, as his academic novels don't sell well and another Black author's best-selling book is a dumbed-down sell-out.
Dec 5, 2023
Young and Strange: A Review of ‘Poor Things’
The new film, Poor Things, lands with a thud. In a scenario lifted from countless vintage horror/sci-fi flicks, it’s the old story of a...