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DARA OF JASENOVAC

February 16, 2021 By Leave a Comment

DARA OF JASENOVAC

DARA OF JASENOVAC is a brutal film about a lesser-known part of the Holocaust. Based on the testimony of survivors, it expounds on Jasenovac, the only Fascist concentration camps in World War II that were not run by the Nazis themselves. Instead, inspired and advised by the Nazis, they were established by the Roman Catholic… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, murder, sadism, Serbia, World War II

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

The story of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI was inspired by actual events, which leaves plenty of room for speculation about what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay (shortly to become Muhammad Ali), James Brown, and Sam Cooke talked about in that motel room on February 25, 1964. If it was less the dialectic presented here, what each… Read More »

Tagged With: civil right, economic freedom, Nation of Islam, racial equality, racism

OVER THE MOON

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

OVER THE MOON

OVER THE MOON sensitively takes on a difficult subject, the loss of a mother with the subsequent prospect of a blended family. It becomes a film that is respectful of the issue, yet triumphantly uplifting in it message of moving on while still honoring the past. Along the way, we learn about the importance of… Read More »

Tagged With: biker chick, blended family, lunar landscape, moon cake, moon festival, Moon Goddess

THE MIDNIGHT SKY

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE MIDNIGHT SKY

It feels right to have a film about the end of the world be a cold thing, literally and figuratively. And so it is with THE MIDNIGHT SKY, a story set three decades or so in the future is an uncertain blend of personal regret with planetary destruction. Set both in the arctic and in… Read More »

Tagged With: Arctic, end of the world, hologram, interplanetary travel, Jupiter's moon, meteor shower, selective mutism, space colonization

MINARI

December 30, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MINARI

MINARI is a powerful contemplation of family, faith, and the American Dream. Seen through the lens of 7-year-old David (Alan S. Kim in a stunning, unselfconscious turn), whose Korean-born parents have moved him, his older sister Anne (Noel Cho), and eventually their grandmother (scene-stealing Youn Yuh-jung) to rural 1980s Arkansas in search of a life… Read More »

Tagged With: Arkansas, faith, farming, first generation American, grandmother-grandson, immigrant family, Korean-American

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

It’s only right that a revenge story with a savage punch line should also have a savage sense of humor. And so it is with PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a tale of rage against the patriarchy in which the testosterone-heavy are not the only problem, and one woman’s refusal to let a crime go unacknowledged makes… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, punch link, revenge, sexual assault

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE

The animation in THE CROODS: A NEW AGE is just as lovely as it was in the original. As we find our cave family going through some changes, though, the story, while lively, has a distinctly mid-century sit-com vibe, and not just because that Partridge Family anthem, “I Think I Love You”, is on repeat… Read More »

Tagged With: bananas, cave people, punch monkey, sequel, wolf spider

I’M YOUR WOMAN

December 27, 2020 By Leave a Comment

I’M YOUR WOMAN

As we learn at the start of I’M YOUR WOMAN, Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is living a life of comfort, security, and irritating tedium in 1970s suburbia. Ensconced in a mid-century classic in an affluent neighborhood, she is quietly smoking as she goes over where her life when wrong, as in not having children with her… Read More »

Tagged With: 1970s, adopted baby, disappearing husband, femme noir, on the run, safe house

SOUL

December 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SOUL

Pixar’s SOUL is as slyly unpredictable as it is playfully brilliant. Nothing less than a deconstruction of what life means, it is both raucous and Zen as it tells the story of a jazz musician who is not ready for the Great Beyond, thereby becoming a perfect koan, and possibly the best movie of the… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, jazz, paradigm shift, souls, spark

WONDER WOMAN 1984

December 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WONDER WOMAN 1984

At one point in WONDER WOMAN 1984, it’s as if we are is dared to think of the phrase “cat fight” as Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) tangles with one of the two villains of the piece, played by Kristen Wiig. I don’t quite know what to make of that in this troubled film that is… Read More »

Tagged With: D.C., oil, Ponzi scheme, sequel, Washington, wishes

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