Movies
‘A Love Song’: Gentle film asks, Is love ageless and color blind?
July 26, 2022With its simple, naturalistic style tinged by sly humor, A Love Song is a motion picture paean to the human condition, filled with yearning, grief, loss and the quest for meaningful (if not necessarily long-lasting) connection...
Read more‘Paris, 13th District’: When the city really sizzles
April 14, 2022This big screen adaptation of American cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel is quite graphic in terms of nudity and sexuality.
Read more‘Nosferatu’ 100 years later: Plagues, politics, sex and vampires
March 23, 2022This month marks the 100 year anniversary of the debut of the German Expressionist silent horror film Nosferatu.
Read moreFilm ‘King Richard’ – A father coaches the Williams sisters tennis superstars
March 22, 2022Bop, bop, bop, across the net. Each strike sends the tennis ball over the net, while their father lobs it gently, one of the sisters must run with all her strength, and get it back over...
Read more‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: Rediscovering the wheel
February 3, 2022The films of Japanese film director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi lodge in your brain and heart like small incendiary devices, ticking from his self-awareness toward yours. What did the character mean by that? How does that...
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