The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial The late great William Friedkin has associated himself for the last time with this week’s extremely well done version of “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”, produced by Showtime and Paramount+, which for someone who brought to us The Exorcist and The French Connection may appear slight at the outset, but is however […]
Shirley In John Ridley’s “Shirley,” we witness the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm (Regina King), the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress and a woman who campaigned in her own right to be the Democratic Presidential nominee. Depicted along the timeline of her run for office, “Shirley” portrays how Chisholm
Americana Ghost shirts, which are sacred to certain Indigenous communities, were believed to protect the owner from bullets by means of supernatural forces. It is this priceless artifact that plays a major role in Tony Tost’s debut film at the SXSW, Americana. This Western dramedy has some tricks up its sleeve as a result of
The Beautiful Game Perhaps it is not so shocking that filmmakers have taken twenty years to come up with a gripping tale, or rather “an underdog story”, based on the annual coed sport event called the Homeless World Cup, a weeklong service of soccer players in the streets. It’s a strong feel good movie directed
Ride In 1991, country superstar Garth Brooks is quoted as crooning, “Well, it’s bulls and blood It’s the dust and mud It’s the roar of a Sunday crowd/It’s the white in the knuckles. The gold in the buckle He’ll win the next go round.” Those words, more descriptive of the rise and fall of a
The Commandant’s Shadow Probably the most powerful impression made by this gripping documentary comes with a nauseating punch of awareness of the horrific history. Hans Jürgen Höss, the now elderly son of the Nazi Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (executed in 1947), is brought back to visit his childhood home: the wartime house where the naturalised
Hard Miles Grounded on true events, ”Hard Miles”, the documentary in question, opens in failure. Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine), a social worker, shows up in the court trying to plead with a judge on behalf of a young man who had done wrong by pushing another young boy and was admitted to an institution for
Kepler’s Dream “Kepler’s Dream” is a boring family story that has been adapted from Juliet Bell’s admired YA novel. It is set in a few places all over the country and on VOD, so people are able to watch it at home. But even those who are fans of the book will probably think this
Finder’s Fee A film that is basically a one-act play, “Finder’s Fee” doesn’t let on what it’s about until the last reel. It is obviously deliberate, as well as being an obvious response to Probst’s decision, in his first feature as writer-director, to shoot on one set and rarely leave the confines of a New
TwoTwo David had it all. Good education, suit and tie job in the corporate world, an apartment with a view downtown LA. His life falls apart when he loses this job, can’t find work anywhere else, and can’t pay his rent. Depressed and hungover from a night of pills and drinking, David wakes up in
