This holiday feature brings tidings of great Christmas dinner authenticity. In my past, I’ve had holiday traditions. I used to go my grandparents’ house after Church on Christmas Eve, celebrate at my […]
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Small Things Like These
A small story with a big heart. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were places run by Catholic nuns to help house fallen women and give them jobs […]
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
A Christmas pageant gets updated by troublesome kids, and it works. I like to consider the holidays as Tax Season for Film Critics, because we do tend to get busy with a […]
Juror No. 2
An Eastwood courtroom drama with an interesting case. Clint Eastwood must be a legend if he’s able to continue filmmaking at the age of 94. If “Juror No. 2” is his last […]
Emilia Perez
An original musical about a cartel leader starting over as a woman. Sometimes I like to think that songs can come in the form of conversations. Meaning that they are singing, but […]
A Real Pain
Two Jewish cousins affectionately look back at their culture with comedy and pathos. Jesse Eisenberg’s second directing job “A Real Pain” is a dramedy that celebrates Jewish culture, while mixing some honest […]
Here
It’s a disappointment, whether it takes place here or there. The last great movie Robert Zemeckis has made was “The Walk,” which was his marvelous take on how Philippe Petit walked a […]
Blitz
Steve McQueen’s WWII drama has the right themes, but the wrong screenplay. Steve McQueen is a filmmaker who expresses African themes in his movies, as wisely demonstrated in “12 Years a Slave,” […]
Memoir of a Snail
A sad and poignant stop motion opus. You know stop motion animation is maturing if we get snail semen, a judge being canned for masturbating, firecrackers exploding cotton, a sleazy magic shop […]
Hangdog
A good Indie comedy about a man with anxiety and a missing dog. In the independent circuit (and this one is streaming on AppleTV+ and Amazon Prime Video), there are some good […]
