Midway

After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, the U.S. Navy prepares for the defining battle against Japan in the Pacific. Roland Emmerich had dreamed of making a…

Life of Emile Zola: Elephant in the room

Paul Muni and Vladimir Sokoloff. Photo: Warner In the 1930s, biographical films won Best Picture two years in a row. In The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell played the legendary theatrical…

Turtles All the Way Down

Together with her best friend (Cree), 16-year-old Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced), who’s struggling with OCD, tries to find out what happened to a missing billionaire; there’s a personal connection in…

Grand Hotel: Where Nothing Ever Happens

Greta Garbo and John Barrymore. Photo: MGM In the 1930s, the Nazis decided that the Austrian author Vicki Baum’s novels were amoral and had to be banned. By then, Baum…

Under the Volcano

A vacationing Ukrainian family is left stranded in Tenerife after Russia’s invasion of their country in February, 2022. A good idea for a drama that makes you ponder what you…

Vermiglio

In 1944, a young deserter (Giuseppe De Domenico) arrives in a small village in the mountains of northern Italy, where he falls in love with the daughter (Martina Scrinzi) of…

The New Year That Never Came

In this sprawling drama, writer-director Bogdan Muresanu wants to remind his fellow Romanians of what it was like to live in a totalitarian state, something people tend to forget whenever…

Safe House

On Christmas Eve, during the civil war in the Central African Republic, a Muslim soldier hides in a field hospital, subjecting everyone there to danger. A drama made in cooperation…

Nr 24

In 2008, Max Manus was a huge hit in Norway, and this film is a companion piece, another well-made portrait of the seminal figures of the resistance movement that fought…

Unstoppable

Oscar-winning editor William Goldenberg made his directing debut with this biopic about a remarkable athlete, Anthony Robles, who was born without a right leg but still became a wrestling champ.…