Christopher Nolan brings us into a confusing world with spectacular scenes, powerful action and shades of Nolan’s Memento and Inception filled with back in time action reflected by the title Tenet which can be spelled the same way back and forth. It all begins with a spectacular introduction action scene the first of many that […]
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Her Smell
Identity masking may be at the heart of Her Smell, a sprawling drama starring Elisabeth Moss (Us) and directed by Alex Ross Perry, her frequent collaborator. The title may be apropos for those willing to endure this ugly, often toxic depiction inspired by Shakespeare and a Guns N’ Roses reunion tour with an onslaught of chaos […]
The Old Guard
An antidote to silver screen superhero fare during an ongoing pernicious pandemic is this globetrotting action thriller having fantasy trappings and cobbled from graphic novels assisted on by scripter Greg Rucka. The Old Guard stars Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne and Metthias Schoenaerts as the saturnine into rough-and ready folks who can last forever until perhaps […]
Relic
Relic stars Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, and Bella Heathcote in a tale that could be akin to Hereditary with metaphorical haunted-house angst. Mortimer and Heathcote are mother and daughter Kay and Sam becoming embroiled in the latter’s grandmother physical and emotional state in a woodsy enclave away from the former’s busy Melbourne life. A missing […]
Greyhound
COVID-`19 survivor Tom Hanks shifts from container vessel captain in Captain Phillips to Navy Commander Ernest Krause during the Battle of the Atlantic in a new film he scripted under the direction of Aaron Schneider (Get Low). Here, after the red cardigan sweater as a beloved television host in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. […]