A father lies in the snow motionless. He is bleeding from the head and not breathing. That’s how his blind son discovers him, and when the panicked boy calls to his mother for help, she peeks out from the second-story … Continue reading ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE)
It’s the early 1960s, and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu is just 14 years old. She doesn’t have any friends or hobbies, just the day-in, day-out monotony of living on a U.S. Army Base in West Germany. But you know who else is stationed … Continue reading PRISCILLA
He (Michael Fassbender) is a contract killer. If you can afford him, the target you wish dead must be of certain regard. That’s because you are not hiring someone to haphazardly gun another down in the streets. You are hiring … Continue reading THE KILLER
Along the Southern U.S. border is the town of Agry. It’s a town in love with its own name: The Agry Palace Saloon, Agry Jail, Agry Hotel. The man who runs the hotel is Amos Agry (Peter Whitney). The man … Continue reading BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE
Thoughts on Martin Scorsese’s latest, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Continue reading
Every April, tiny flowers spread like confetti across the blackjack hills of Oklahoma. This is Osage Territory—land carved out and granted to the Osage Nation in the 19th century after they were forced out of Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas. Here … Continue reading KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
If you love folk music, you know Joan Baez. If you don’t love folk music, then you might know a couple of Baez songs, that she spent some crucial years around Bob Dylan, marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, … Continue reading JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE
It’s the most common question you get as a film critic: “What’s good?” Variants include: “What do you like?” “What excites you?” “What should I see?” And if you’ve asked me any one of those in the past two months, … Continue reading Perfect Days: Previewing the 2023 Denver Film Festival
From goths to cannibals, TCM to Netflix, there are plenty of place to catch horror this October. Continue reading
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