All posts tagged "Drama"
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THE RENTAL (2020) – Review
It looks like whatever crystal ball (maybe more of a big fishbowl) Hollywood was consulting certainly proved it’s...
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FIRST COW – Review
Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW offers a tale of friendship and American dreams, set in a hardscrabble frontier outpost...
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MR JONES – Review
In the early ’30s, a young Welsh journalist named Jones uncovers a secret famine in Stalin’s Soviet Union,...
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7500 – Review
7500 is the code that airlines use for a hijacking, and hijacking is the subject of Amazon’s drama/thriller...
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TAPE – Review
TAPE opens with images of the mutilated character Lavinia from Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus,” followed by horrific footage of...
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NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS – Review
This weekend sees the release of a new teen film that’s an alternative to many of the fluffy...
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BURDEN – Review
In this strange but true story, Garrett Hedlund plays a young white man is persecuted after leaving the...
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THE WAY BACK (2020) – Review
Maybe that Shakespeare guy was on to something. That line about “All the world’s a stage” in particular....
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THE SONG OF NAMES – Review
People today (well always but more so now) really enjoying having lots of choices, be it food (as...
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WAVES – Review
One might call WAVES a family drama but that fails to capture the emotional tsunami that this outstanding...
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PAIN AND GLORY – Review
Making a film about a movie maker is a tricky thing but thankfully, Pedro Almodovar gets it right...
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AFTER THE WEDDING – Review
AFTER THE WEDDING cleverly switches the genders on the Oscar-nominated Danish film of the same name, transforming it...
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LUCE – Review
Enough with Summertime frivolity, time to get serious. Really, here’s a real thought-provoking, and debate-provoking, drama featuring some...
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THE NIGHTINGALE – Review
The writer/director of THE BABADOOK, Jennifer Kent, follows up the chilling horror film with a gripping drama set...
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THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO – Review
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO is the story of a man in love with a house,...
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LATE NIGHT – Review
Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling star in a sort of buddy comedy about a much-lauded but out-of-touch late-night...
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THE SOUVENIR – Review
Many women, early in their romantic lives, have an experience with a “bad boy,” a charming rogue who...
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TOLKIEN – Review
One thing you learn early on in TOLKIEN is that it is pronounced “Tol-keen,” contrary to the way...
