My Home is Copacabana

The director’s most famous film is a classic that’s true to his down-to-earth yet poetic style, a portrait of four young orphans trying to get by in the slums of…

The Swedish Connection

In 1942, a Swedish foreign ministry bureaucrat (Henrik Dorsin) learns about systematic killing of Jews in Nazi Germany and decides that rules need to be bro… well, bent at least.…

Yalla Parkour

There was a time in Gaza before October 7th, 2023, when things looked a little brighter for Palestinian boys – at least in comparison with what came after. That’s evident…

Ready or Not

Grace (Samara Weaving, who’s just married into the wealthy Le Domas family, is invited to play a game with them – and finds herself a target. Another variation on The…

The Secret Agent: But I Digress…

Wagner Moura. Photo: Neon The Brazilian dictatorship, loathed by the millions who suffered under it and celebrated by modern fascists like former president Jair Bolsonaro, is going through a cinematic…

Joe’s College Road Trip

When B.J. (Jermaine Harris) has spent too much time with his white friends and forgotten about his cultural heritage, Joe (Tyler Perry) takes him on an educational road trip. More…

Elio

Young orphan Elio dreams of space, but when he’s abducted by aliens he finds himself representing Earth in negotiations with a warlord. The fact that the original LGBTQ-colored characterizations that…

The Long Goodbye

Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt) hires L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) to find her husband (Sterling Hayden), but the case is also connected to the death of a…

Kwaidan: The Illusion of Life

Photo: Toho There were two massively influential Japanese horror films released in 1964. Onibaba put an unsettling hanniya mask at the center of a grim civil war story; Kwaidan is…

Tron Ares

During a race to find a ”permanence code” to break a barrier between reality and digital constructs, a breakthrough happens in Alaska. No one really asked for a third chapter…