Andra Day sings her heart out as Billie Holiday. The first film to tell singer Billie Holiday’s story was “Lady Sings the Blues” in 1972, starring Diana Ross as Lady Day, Billy […]
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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Crisis
A drug picture that is both sober and overdosed. Other critics have been comparing “Crisis” to Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic,” because it also uses a star-studded cast to focus on the war on […]
Tom and Jerry
The famous cat and mouse are the stars of the show, not the humans. To quote Roger Ebert when he panned “Inspector Gadget” on his Worst of 1999 show: “One of the […]
My Zoe
Much a cloning experiment about nothing much. “My Zoe” is the 7th film the wonderful Julie Delpy has directed (other films include “2 Days in Paris” and 2 Days in New York”), […]
The Father
Anthony Hopkins delivers another exceptional performance as a man losing his mind. “The Father,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, is a much more powerful dramatization of the affects of dementia than […]
Minari, Music, and The Mauritanian Podcast Reviews
CJ reviews movies about the American dream, autism, and falsely accused prisoners on the air. I’ve joined a radio station known as NewHD, which will not only hire people on the Autism […]
The World to Come, Blithe Spirit, Silk Road, Body Brokers, I Care a Lot, and Flores & Ulysses Video Reviews
CJ’S video reviews feature lesbians, con artists, and flying squirrels. This week’s video reviews consist of the lesbian period drama “The World to Come,” starring Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbot, and […]
Flora & Ulysses
The sweet story of a girl and her flying squirrel. The new Disney+ movie “Flora & Ulysses” is about a flying squirrel, but it’s not a “Rocky & Bullwinkle” spin-off or reboot […]
I Care a Lot
Rosamund Pike electrifies as a con artist who doesn’t respect the elders. Rosamund Pike gives the most sinister performance since “Gone Girl” in “I Care a Lot,” a dark comedy that deals […]
Body Brokers
Rich on drug addicts and money, but poor on the script. For a movie to use drug rehab patients as mules for their money-laundering, I’ve expected more out of “Body Brokers.” It […]
