Above: "Do Not Expect Too Much For The End of the World" (My favorite film of the year.)
(in the order that I saw them; unless dated it was a 2024 release)
Undercover Girl (1950)
Timebomb Y2K
Onlookers
Edward Hopper (PBS)
Napoleon (2023)
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)
The Curse (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 4)
Next Goal Wins (2023)
June (2023)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Ferrari (2023)
Fallen Leaves (2023)
Madame...
Here are brief reviews of some of my favorite films from this month's DOC NYC festival.
"My Sweet Land" is a briskly paced, beautifully edited portrait of an 11-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian boy caught with his family in the series of wars against Azerbaijan which have greatly reduced the land that was once part of Armenia. The boy is remarkably positive given the circumstances and follows...
When Americans think of cheese it is usually cheese burgers or those horrible cellulose “cheesy poofs” beloved by Cartman in “South Park.” Orange, mild...
(above: "Daddio")
The Tribeca Film Festival (June 5-16) is already underway. The festival keeps expanding: more venues, more genres. It’s not just films (narrative, documentary,...
It’s very fitting that the song accompanying the end credits of the documentary “Flipside” is “Unsatisfied,” The Replacements’ 1984 anthem to teen angst. Hearing...
Beginning this Thursday, March 22, NYC’s Metrograph Theater is presenting a restored version of “My Heart Is That Eternal Rose,” an important and influential...
A friend of mine used to always observe that if he ever visited Hawaii he'd probably never leave. After watching Christopher Kahunahana's indie feature...
