Qualifying for the 2025 Oscars, Amir Zargara’s short “A Good Day Will Come” is both heartbreaking and necessary. It’s inspired…
Browsing: drama
The short film “Moeder” (the Dutch word for mother), directed by Salomon Ligthelm, is a somber yet evasive film. It…
I debated including “Thirteen Women” in my list of slasher films. Most critics tend to view “Psycho” and “Peeping Tom”…
Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the confrontational, cantankerous and miserable spitfire in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” is so relentlessly combative that many…
David Cronenberg loves twins. In “Dead Ringers” (1988), an adaptation of Bari Wood’s novel “Twins” (remade into a 2023 miniseries…
A couple decades ago, my friends and I played in a men’s baseball league. We had the youngest team (name:…
Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant and animated artistic vision colors death in bright reds and jagged purples, turning “The Room Next Door”…
Returning to the past via old camera footage or photographs gives you an array of emotions. Depending on the memory…
Sean Baker’s “Anora” is a wild, raucous ride, sprinting across a high-wire while somehow maintaining its composure. A filmmaking style…
Around the midway point of Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” Miguel (Manolo Solo) picks up a guitar and croons “My…