Well well well. Perhaps the long-in-the-tooth Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has some life after all. I have read recently that Disney has milked the legendary comic book-cum-film franchise, quite literally, to death. In the name of profit, perhaps. Once again, the great Taika Waititi saves the day. It wasn’t…

I read reviews of this film before, and after I watched. I love the Clickbait web pages that promise to “explain the ending” but never do. Spoiler alert, they don’t. Mainly, my complaint about Sundown is I have no idea what happened at the end. The beginning, and middle…

Nearly no critics did not like this grueling, Django Unchained style film. And what’s not to like, unless you are even a little bit squeamish. Then you should probably avoid this Paul Andrew Williams entry. Because it starts violent and gory, and goes downhill from there. The basic plot…

While I am a lifelong member of the David Lean Marching and Shouting Society, I had actually never heard of this minor jewel. Glad I checked it out. In an earlier review I praised Lean’s masterpiece, “Great Expectations” for remaining true to the spirit of the Dickens classic, while…

I had seen this solid Carl Franklin thriller a few years ago. I recently read the book, and have fallen in love with Walter Mosley. I’m a big fan of Noir, Crime Thrillers, and trying to expand my reading of BIPOC authors. Anyway, I did really like this, the…

I spend a lot of time reviewing older films, so I thought I would take on a (very) recent one. Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I tend to insert personal details into them. I suppose that is one way I connect with Film — on a…

Well, that just happened. I agree with most Amazon reviewers (who agree with most critics) that Julia Ducournau’s grisly paen to Vegetarianism is, well, its something. Highly original. Well-crafted. Not what I was expecting. In a word, mildly or very shocking. Raw concerns a young French woman who is…

Since I am on a current journey through my teenage years (see my last review of Licorice Pizza ( https://medium.com/p/ab7a928e60de), why not re-visit this remarkable art-house gem from Aussie director Peter Weir? Starring the inimitable Richard Chamberlain who, to his credit, doesn’t even try to fake an Aussie accent. …

To say that Paul Thomas Anderson’s marvelous coming-of-age tone poem, “Licorice Pizza” made me nostalgic is a huge understatement. Since I watched it a couple of weekends ago in a local art house theater here in my adopted home town of Tulsa, OK I have been thinking about my teenage…