Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

CODA 

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, teenager Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is torn between helping her deaf family manage their fishing business and maybe having a career as a singer. A remake of…

Free Solo: El Cap One Step at a Time

Alex Honnold. Photo: National Geographic In September 2019, the term ”free solo” was added to Merriam-Webster’s English dictionary. The reason was this film and its ability to take what used…

The Suicide Squad 

When the government of a small South American nation is overthrown, a new Suicide Squad is assembled… but there are obviously ulterior motives behind the mission. The sequel to the…

Who Saw Him Die? 

In Malmö, teacher Sören Mårtensson (Per Oscarsson) is struggling in the classroom and at home, failing to gain the respect and confidence that he needs. Jan Troell’s second film was…

Hamlet: Besting Henry V

Laurence Olivier. Photo: Rank Film As Ethel Barrymore opened the envelope at the 1949 Oscars and learned that Hamlet had been selected by her peers as Best Picture of the…

Brassed Off 

In the small town of Grimley in Northern England, Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) joins the local brass band, made up of miners; she has a secret they won’t like… A film…

Henry V: An Evening at the Globe

Laurence Olivier. Photo: United Artists In Donald Spoto’s 1991 biography on Laurence Olivier, the actor is described as having a somewhat disastrous turn as a soldier during World War II.…

Fear Street: 1666 

Deena (Kiana Madeira) reunites the corpse of the witch Sarah Fier with her severed hand and suddenly has a vision from Sarah’s perspective of what happened in 1666, when the…

Fear Street: 1978 

Deena and Josh (Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores, Jr.) track down Christine Berman (Gillian Jacobs) who was a teenager in 1978; she starts telling them about the massacre at Camp Nightwing…