A doggone sad and cute documentary about Istanbul’s strays. The opening credits for the new Turkish documentary “Stray” explain how capturing and killing stray dogs has recently been illegal in Turkey, and […]
Stray
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
The good (not great) SpongeBob sequel. The question I’ve been having about “SpongeBob SquarePants” lately has an interesting or obvious answer, depending on how you diverse animated TV shows. It isn’t “How […]
The 78th Golden Globe Awards
The winners of the delayed COVID-free Golden Globes. Due to COVID-19, the Golden Globes was pushed to February with Tina Fey hosting in New York’s Rainbow Room and Amy Poehler assisting in […]
The Father, Tom & Jerry, My Zoe, Crisis, Billie Holiday, and Billie Eilish Video Reviews
CJ’s video reviews deliver on musicians, cartoon characters, and old folks. This week’s video reviews consist of “The Father,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, the famous cat and mouse duo in […]
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
See this doc for Billie Eilish’s life, not the songs. The first time I’ve heard about this 19-year-old singer Billie Eilish is when her hit song “Bad Guy” played during the end […]
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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 […]
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 […]
