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…
Film: Martha Coolidge’s ‘I’ll Find You’
Music is often an important component of film, elevating the action and visual settings while usually taking a back seat. As effective as it can be, it’s rarely central to…
Documentary Review: ‘Everybody Dance’
“Everybody Dance” is the motto of Bonnie Schlachte’s Center of Ballet for All Kids in Agoura Hills, Calif. where special-needs kids of a wide age and abilities can learn and…
Movie Review: New Englanders Get Frisky
For people in Flint and many other communities, water impurities are no laughing matter. Millions are estimated to have to consume contaminated tap water. But for "Love in Kilnerry," a…
Movie Review: Surprise Party Gone Wrong
Here’s a terrible idea: To guarantee that a reluctant brother appear at a surprise party, have him kidnapped and taken there. It could be the plot to some rambunctious comedy…