Heart of Glass

In the late 1700s, a small Bavarian town loses its master glassblower, who takes his secrets with him; the effect on the townspeople is devastating. One of Werner Herzog’s least…

The Wages of Fear

When an oil well in Northern Africa catches fire, a team gather to drive two trucks of explosives to the site, crossing a desert full of dangers. No wonder that…

Shirley

A political biography that shares similarities with the recent Rustin. Both films are traditional, respectable but somewhat underwhelming in terms of emotional impact. Both tell a story about civil rights…

Kandahar

CIA operative Tom Harris (Gerard Butler) is on a mission in Afghanistan when his cover is blown; now he needs to make his way to an extraction point in Kandahar.…

Sister Act

When a nightclub singer (Whoopi Goldberg) witnesses her mobster boyfriend (Harvey Keitel) commit murder, she goes into hiding, posing as a nun in a San Francisco convent. One of the…

Bait

A Cornwall fisherman (Edward Rowe) watches his community fall apart, as his brother (Giles King) takes visiting tourists on cruise trips. Some labeled it a masterpiece. True or not, there…

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…