Writer-director Pawel Pawlowski’s black and white romantic drama Cold War just nominated for Best Foreign Language, Direction and Cinematography Oscars benefits from excellent performances from Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot but Pawlowski’s anxiety around time is its core. It’s the early fifties in …
New Theatrical Movies Few and Far Between, True Detective Season 3 at Last, Streaming Takes Over and Some Very Cool VODs
Stan & Ollie starring Steve Coogan and John Reilly as the durable Hollywood comedy team of Laurel and Hardy expands its berth this week. This beautifully acted two hander about the final chapter of the professional lives, on tour in northern England, is gentle and poignant as it becomes clear …
It’s Authority Figures with PTSD and Women in Peril Season, Nicole Kidman’s Monumental Morph, a Stunning Foreign Language Film Contender, Richard Madden and Streaming All the Livelong Day!!
If you'd like to be blasted out of your post-holiday complacency, then run don’t walk to see a radically transformed Nicole Kidman in the action thriller Destroyer. Stalking gangsters with heavy weaponry and attitude, she’s a disturbed, driven cop out to right a wrong dating back to a …
Our Christmas Week Movie Menu Features Some Sweet Offerings, Some Sour, a Few Tasty Treats and Others You’ll Give to the Dog Under the Table. Happy Holidays!
Travis Knight’s lively and kid-friendly holiday sci-fi Bumblebee has a lot going for it. Hailee Steinfeld, a southern Cali teen living in the 80’s, is attempting to separate from childhood and parental rules. She’s a skilled car mechanic who hangs out at a junkyard, dreaming of independence. One day …
Mary Poppins Returns in the Nick of Time, Eastwood’s The Mule, Are There Other Spider-Men Out There? Quakes, Blaze, War, Bloody Murder, Dumplin, Britmas and the Latest Streaming Service is FREE.
Opening next Wednesday Dec 19 is the marvellously entertaining Mary Poppins Returns, a nostalgic, low tech delight that finds Mary returning to the Banks siblings (Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw) just when she‘s needed most. It’s thirty years later and times are tough. Michael, now a banker with …