Film Review: Quiet Truths in ‘Stay Awake’
One of the tragedies of the opioid epidemic across America is the damage it inflicts on families — not only to those addicted but to those who try to keep…
Movie: Kiernan Shipka Stars in ‘Wildflower’
Just as it was a pleasure watching Kiernan Shipka grow up before our eyes on “Mad Men,” portraying a seven to 15-year-old Sally Draper, it’s an equal pleasure to see…
Film: Low-Budget Horror ‘Mind Leech’
Cheeseman is the name of the director, co-writer, co-star and the production company involved. And cheese is what you get in “Mind Leech,” a light-hearted horror flick from Canada. Using…
‘Randy Rhoads: Reflection of a Rock Icon’
Hard rock fans know the name of Randy Rhoads, the exciting young guitarist who had shredded his way to center stage in Ozzy Osbourne’s first post-Black Sabbath solo band, a…
Film: The Greatest Player Nobody Knew
One of the great unsung stars of basketball — except maybe in Los Angeles — is Raymond Lewis, who became something of a high school legend, scoring as many as…
Film Review: Powerful ‘You Resemble Me’
Dina Amer’s mesmerizing, elegiac film “You Resemble Me” begins with the lovely interactions of a couple of sisters, age seven and 9, tumbling through life and the outskirts of Paris…
Movie: ‘The Seasons – Four Love Stories’
To everything there is a season. So say Ecclesiastes, Pete Seeger and the Byrds. And so there is for love, as Paul Schwartz depicts in his modest little film “The…
Film: Documentary ‘Tiger 24’ Has Teeth
When Warren Pereira began making a documentary film in his native India about a tiger reserve he readily admits, “I don’t know what I was doing.” Of the dominant male…
Film Review: ‘The Take Out Move,’ Remade
If you want to do a quick offhand comedy about a couple of guys competing in a frantic, slapstick cartoon style, you’d make a TikTok. If it got a smile,…
Movie Review: ‘Murder, Anyone?’
Before he died in 2019 at 68, the television writer Gordon Bressack left behind seven unproduced film scripts. As a dutiful son, the director James Cullen Bressack has decided not…