Finding the Humor in Every Movie
Synopsis: A U.S. Navy SEAL joins up with the CIA to settle a score. Welcome to Without Remorse — correction: Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse. This will help distinguish it from Jane Austen’s Without Remorse, a … Continue Reading Without Remorse
Synopsis: Seniors living in vans travel from place to place to find work. Nomadland is most decidedly not #vanlife. The people aren’t vivacious and sexy looking. The vans aren’t new … Continue Reading Nomadland
Synopsis: Four teachers experiment with day drinking. (Streaming on Hulu & Amazon Prime.) Druk is Danish for binge drinking (alcohol). Druk or by its English title, Another Round, explores drinking culture in Denmark. The … Continue Reading Another Round
Synopsis: A lonely robot seeks friendship. (Pixar, 2008, streaming on Disney+) How much loneliness can one person take? In Cast Away, Tom Hanks’ marooned character survives alone on an island for … Continue Reading WALL-E
Synopsis: A woman attends a shiva and runs into an ex and a current lover. When does a social event become a social obligation? When you don’t want to go…but … Continue Reading Shiva Baby
Synopsis: A Korean-American family leaves California to pursue farming in Arkansas in the early 1980’s. Some might say that Minari is about the American Dream and who has a right to … Continue Reading Minari
Synopsis: The lives of stray dogs in Istanbul is documented. Zeytin’s collaboration with director Elizabeth Lo was filmed in Istanbul, Turkey during six months in 2018- 2019. Zeytin, whose name … Continue Reading Stray
Synopsis: A teen searches for a dragon and the chance to restore peace in her world. (Animated. Streaming on Disney+) Interest in virtually any movie can be heightened by the inclusion … Continue Reading Raya and the Last Dragon
Synopsis: Two people at a wedding are caught in a time loop. (Streaming on Hulu) I suppose if you were trapped in a time loop, there’d be worse places to … Continue Reading Palm Springs
Synopsis: A man and a woman who own neighboring farms in Ireland feud and maybe fall in love. Faith and begorrah, a movie that celebrates all that is Irish and … Continue Reading Wild Mountain Thyme
Synopsis: A woman carries out her own plan for justice. Do you know how to tell a nice guy from a “nice guy”? One clue is that a “nice guy” … Continue Reading Promising Young Woman
Synopsis: A father and his teen daughter live as survivalists. In Leave No Trace we will spend most of our time following a father-daughter duo though rainy Pacific Northwest forests. Now … Continue Reading Leave No Trace
Synopsis: Set in the late 1950’s, an aspiring TV producer has an affair with a saxophonist. (Streaming on Amazon Prime.) Sylvie’s Love is a romance chockful of passion, glamour and … Continue Reading Sylvie’s Love
Synopsis: Raising a baby bird helps a woman to recover from depression after a debilitating accident. Good on Naomi Watts for shepherding Penguin Bloom, the story of her fellow Aussie … Continue Reading Penguin Bloom
Synopsis: An impoverished young man in India tries to get ahead. Desperate people do desperate things. Greedy people do greedy things. Elvish people do elvish things. You get the idea. … Continue Reading The White Tiger
Synopsis: A drummer experiences hearing loss. What happens when a recovering addict is hit with life-changing adversity that would knock anyone off their feet? This is the question at the … Continue Reading Sound of Metal
