Bedknobs and Broomsticks

During the London Blitz, three children are evacuated to a small village where they’re staying with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a woman who turns out to be a…

20 Days in Mariupol: Odyssey of Hell

Photo: PBS Distribution When I saw this documentary, I was also reading Erik Larson’s ”The Splendid and the Vile”, his engrossing account of the London Blitz. Depicting a city and…

From Darkness

When a woman goes missing in the woods, looking for her son who disappeared two years ago, a team gathers to look for her in the dark, bitter cold. A…

Road House 

Former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) is hired as a bouncer for a bar in the Florida Keys; he immediately gets into trouble with local thugs. This remake of…

Road House 

Professional bouncer James Dalton (Patrick Swayze) is hired to work at a club in Missouri, getting tangled up in the business of a local strongman (Ben Gazzara). Derided by most…

Crossing

When her sister dies, a retired teacher (Mzia Arabuli) in Georgia goes to Istanbul together with a young guide (Lucas Kankava) to try to find her niece, a trans girl…

American Fiction: Monk Finds an Audience

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright. Photo: Orion One of the opening scenes in this comedy is like catnip to culture warriors. The main character, who’s a teacher, is confronted by…

Dune: Part Two

As House Harkonnen increases its control over the desert planet Arrakis, Paul and Jessica (Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson) are treated as potential prophets by the local Fremen. A majestic follow-up…

Irish Wish

When the author (Alexander Vlahos) that Maddie Kelly (Lindsay Lohan) has supported for years as editor decides to marry one of her friends (even though she secretly loves him), Maddie…

Mr. Jones

In 1933, after landing an interview with Hitler, British reporter Gareth Jones (James Norton) goes to the Soviet Union to examine Stalin’s ”economic miracle”, finding a hidden famine. Agnieszka Holland…