Film Review / ‘The Choice’ (PG) * and a half Film Review / ‘The Choice’ (PG) * and a half IN a small North Carolina coastal town, Travis (Benjamin Walker) is playing loud music on…
Film Review / ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ (PG) *** Film Review / ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ (PG) *** SHORTLY before dying in 1979, Peggy Guggenheim gave an audio-taped interview to biographer Jacqueline Bograd…
Film Review / “Looking For Grace” (M) *** and a half Film Review / “Looking For Grace” (M) *** and a half WRITER/director Sue Brooks, whose filmography may be short but is undeniably choice, turns out films…
Film Review / “Dirty Grandpa” (MA) * Film Review / “Dirty Grandpa” (MA) * IN our nanny state, the MA15+ classification for films not meeting the criteria for R…
Film Review / “Spotlight” (M) **** Film Review / “Spotlight” (M) **** BOSTON has a large Catholic population. “Spotlight” tells how the “Boston Globe” newspaper investigated the…
Film Review / The Danish Girl (M) *** and a half Film Review / The Danish Girl (M) *** and a half LUCINDA Coxon’s screenplay based on David Ebershoff’s novel tells the story of a man in…
Film Review / The H8ful Eight (R) *** and a half Film Review / The H8ful Eight (R) *** and a half ARRIVING amid a blare of publicity to offset its reported production cost of USD60million, Quentin…
News Review / ‘Carol’ (M) 118 mins *** and a half News Review / ‘Carol’ (M) 118 mins *** and a half PATRICIA Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” provides writer Phyllis Nagy with the foundation for…
Film Review / ‘The Big Short’ (M) 130 mins *** and a half Film Review / ‘The Big Short’ (M) 130 mins *** and a half THE average punter probably knows more about outer space than the byzantine complexities of high…
Film Review / ‘Goosebumps’ PG 103 mins * for grownups, *** for 9-to-13 kids Film Review / ‘Goosebumps’ PG 103 mins * for grownups, *** for 9-to-13 kids IN Rob Letterman’s film, Jack Black plays R.L. Stine, well-known to kids in the 9…
Film Review / ‘The Himalayas’ (M) 124 mins **** Film Review / ‘The Himalayas’ (M) 124 mins **** SINCE 1998, South Korean film-makers have made more than 1560 feature titles. We’ve seen only…
Film Review / ‘The Revenant’ (MA) 154 mins **** Film Review / ‘The Revenant’ (MA) 154 mins **** “REVENANT” is the present participle of the French word revenir (to come back). Colloquially, it…