Two Moon Junction

A Southern belle (Sherilyn Fenn) is getting married to a dull businessman when she falls hard for a drifter (Richard Tyson) who’s working for a carnival. After co-writing the successful…

Magnum Force

When several criminals, including a prominent mobster, are murdered, Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) begins to suspect a cover-up. The sequel to Dirty Harry (1971) provides a bit of irony, considering…

Umberto D: Life in Ruins in a City of Ruins

Carlo Battisti. Photo: Dear Film As in the case of Bicycle Thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica would be criticized for Umberto D. by people who hated how he portrayed their…

Ice Cold in Alex

In 1941, a group of British soldiers and nurses try to cross a North African desert in an ambulance, welcoming a South African officer (Anthony Quayle) who may have ulterior…

The Courier

In 1960, a British businessman (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited by MI6 and the CIA to build a relationship with a Soviet GRU officer (Merab Ninidze) who’s grown disillusioned with Krushchev.…

Immaculate

A young American woman (Sydney Sweeney) who’s a novice in an Italian convent learns one day that she’s pregnant – even though she’s never had sex. Sweeney auditioned for this…

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

300 years after the events of War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), a chimpanzee, Noa, is trying to find his kidnapped clan when he meets a human scavenger…

ABBA the Movie

After directing several ABBA videos, Lasse Hallström made this hybrid between concert movie and comedy that was seen in some corners as the band’s version of A Hard Day’s Night…

High and Low: John Galliano

Or, The Rehabilitation of John Galliano, produced by Condé Nast whose fashion magazines (including Vogue whose editor-in-chief Anna Wintour appears in the film) were an instrumental part in the rise…

Talk to Me

A group of Adelaide teenagers gather for a séance where they aim to communicate with the dead through a severed and embalmed hand. An acclaimed and popular horror movie that…