This week, we look at a fun romp about an adventure writer and her books’ cover boy, as well as a romance about a time traveler seeking love. New Release ‘The Lost City’ Sandra Bullock stars as hermetic author Loretta Sage, who has written a slew of popular adventure novels. When she gets kidnapped by…
Film Review: ‘Anti Coronavirus’
1hr 25min | Drama | 2020 There have been a lot of films out there that have covered COVID-19, from serious documentaries to narrative works. The latter tend to be dramas, but I’ve also noticed a disturbing amount of low-budget horror films about the virus as well, which mainly seem to want to capitalize on…
Film Review: ‘King Otto’: The Improbable Ascent of the Greek National Football Team
March 24, 2022
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Over the last half century, the powers that be in the athletic establishment have tried multiple times to convince the American public that soccer (henceforth to be referred to here as “football”) is the greatest sport in the world. The latest stab in 1996 (Major League Soccer) took hold somewhat, yet attendance and TV ratings…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green’: Sometimes Disney Gets It Right
A wonderful tale about the power of intention, being careful of what you wish for, self-acceptance, love, loss, and new beginnings.
Film Review: ‘Pachinko’: Grand Family Micro-Tale
Pachinko arcade-style games offer the lowest gambling stakes legally available in Japan. Given its associations with vice, it is not a very prestigious business, but Solomon Baek’s Korean-Japanese family could never afford snobbery. Yet, his father was only able to make a modest success in the pachinko business, and only succeeded at all because of…
Film Review: ‘The Outfit’: Rookie Director Graham Moore’s Slow Burn Crime Thriller
While there were some notable exceptions, the first 40 years of Hollywood movies about organized crime rarely strayed from the blueprint established by Warner Bros. studios beginning in the 1930s with the classics “Little Caesar” and “The Public Enemy.” This all changed with the arrival of “The Godfather” (1972) and its first sequel (1974). Violence…
Water with Life
“Water with Life” features Taiwan’s waterscape throughout four seasons and takes audience to an unprecedented journey that enables people to see diverse lives relying on water and serious impacts caused by global warming, viewers can take a close look into the water environment and destruction. This title is only available in the US. – Feature…
Beyond Pollution
Watching his hometown and its surrounding areas being desecrated by BP’s massive oil spill, director Barker White was compelled to uncover the truth. Traveling thousands of miles across the most severely impacted areas, he interviewed key experts, BP contractors, government officials, fisherman and many more. Ride along with this team of filmmakers as they unveil…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Searching for Sugar Man’: The Latino Bob Dylan Who Destroyed South African Apartheid
Never heard of him? Nobody had. Until now…. his unsung story is finally, brilliantly, and heartwarmingly sung.
Film Review: ‘The Lost City’: A Funnier ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’
PG-13 | 1hr 32min | Screwball Rom-com | December 25, 2022 In the spirit of “King Solomon’s Mines” (and the “lost world” literary genre) but especially “Romancing the Stone,” “The Lost City” is basically an old-fashioned treasure hunt and screwball rom-com wherein the male and female leads have classic, “hurry up and get it over with”…
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