Archive For November, 2019
Freedom Riders
Queen & Slim by George Wolf “I’m not a criminal.” “You are now!” A white cop lies dead on a Cleveland roadside, while a young black couple is processing how…read more →
Stranger than Fiction
Honey Boy by Hope Madden “The only thing my father gave me that was of any value was pain, and you want to take that away?” In other hands, that…read more →
I Don’t Want to Go Out – Week of November 25
Well, a lot of options for your time off this holiday. Too bad none of these movies are very good. Click the film title to link to the full review.…read more →
Being Alive
Marriage Story by George Wolf If plot is what happens and story is how it happens, there’s no better title for Noah Baumbach’s latest than Marriage Story. For years, Baumbach’s…read more →
Parasites
Knives Out by Hope Madden It’s interesting that three of the most deliciously watchable films of 2019 exist to question the societal value of the rich. Earlier this year, the…read more →
Do You Remember Me?
Frankie by Hope Madden A loosely structured day-in-the-life, writer/director Ira Sachs’s Frankie drops in on a family vacation in lovely Sintra, Portugal. It’s a posh event, no doubt, but the…read more →
Good Neighbors
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Hope Madden My God, I love Fred Rogers. I didn’t watch the show as a kid, preferring Under Dog, Scooby Doo and other…read more →
Blue Wave
21 Bridges by George Wolf Okay, huddle up. Sometimes, your team comes in the underdog. They run the same old plays we’ve seen so many times, it’s not hard to…read more →