Kylie Alesso’s “Just Lie to Me” (directed by Kelly Walker) is billed as a ‘dark comedy,’ but its deeper treasures…
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I’ve never seen the much-acclaimed 2018 version of the “A Star is Born” because the 1976 version (with scruffy Kris…
“Ripe!” opens with Marty Robbins’ “Love is Blue” playing in the background. As the song rises to a crescendo, a…
Sarah and Toni are two women trying their best to piece together precious time and they’re fragmented lives. They’ve have…
Being a die-hard Francophile, I had often read about Jeanne du Barry, the illegitimate daughter of a seamstress who rose…
Indie films finding a wider platform to reach their audience is some of the best news small-budget filmmakers can hope…
It’s interesting that the Korean word ‘mimang’ (미망) literally means ‘widow.’ With Kim Taeyang’s film “Mimang” (Hangul: ‘미망’), the director…
Don’t walk into “The Taste of Things” hungry, because you’ll be bolting out midway through the film to devour the…
Approaching Andrew Haigh’s bewitching “All of Us Strangers,” it’s best to submit to the film’s every whim. This intimate, heartbreaking…
In a recent New York Times profile, Jack Fisk, ace art director for Terrance Malick’s “Days of Heaven” recalled the…