It’s all a blur… I have only written two reviews since last January thanks to a combination of pandemic ennui and the fact that I just don’t think that watching a movie at home has the same effect as watching it in a theater. I watched many streaming movies that…

All the stars are in this movie I read an article about how the movie business is in such a dismal state that for any movie to succeed, casting one or two big stars is no longer enough. Now they have to hire entire galaxies of A-listers for a movie…

Who says? Who knows? If there is a director with a kinetic style who could bring back this musical, it is Steven Spielberg, but sitting through two hours and a half of this tepid update, I wished they’d just made a version with the music and the original choreography by…

Move over, Slumdog Millionaire. This is the real deal. Ramin Bahrani's sprawling tale of a poor young Indian man who rises to become an entrepreneur is an epic saga of inequality, poverty, and corruption. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga, it is not your typical feel-good…

Last year sucked for movies just as it did for everything else I will always prefer a big screen in the dark with strangers instead of my living room but we had no choice. 2020 was a sad, bizarre year in which we had to watch movies at home. I…

They do make them like they used to The timing of the release of Mank on Netflix could not be more poignant. A movie about the writing of Citizen Kane, which some consider the greatest American movie ever made, if not the greatest movie of all time, Mank comes at…

Jagshemash Plus 1 Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat is now so well known that Americans recognize him on the street so it is increasingly difficult for him to pull stunts. His kind of semi-documentary humor is not an easy premise to sustain but as Baron Cohen demonstrates, there will always…

Those were the days Aaron Sorkin writes highly entertaining “message” movies. The Trial Of The Chicago Seven is a timely and spirited cri de coeur about civil disobedience. It represents in a courtroom the two sides of America that are, as in those days, at loggerheads today. That is, the…