Reviews

Hustlers is a bad soap opera designed to titillate with little purpose and reason to support the women in the business, of taking advantage of easy picking from men who initially are willing participants.  The women in the business come from different places but each finds that their physical appearance and wiliness to engage in intimate situations can […]

I haven’t read the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Donna Tartt that the film is based on, but it is now on my reading list. Directed by John Crowley (Brooklyn) it is about a boy, Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley) who is visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art with his mother.  A terrorist’s bomb explodes […]

This look at one of Broadway’s most successful, beloved and enduring musicals, as well as the silver-screen spawn helmed by (Norman Jewison) is concise, yet compendious in how a story steeped in religious tradition could be met with such enthusiasm.  Max Lewkowicz non-fiction: Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles ages behind the original Broadway production in […]

Anyone who hasn’t seen the first film It: Chapter One based on Stephen King’s novel, are going to be somewhat lost in this three  hour marathon of a sequel.  Chapter Two is long, confusing and feels like a film made just for some fast money.  It’s OK, but has no long-term redeemable value in my […]

A raw, majestic beauty permeates this Eco-minded documentary from Russian native Viktor Kossakovski (in HD and shot in 96 frames/second through shown mostly in 48 in giant-screen venues). Aquarela has a sweeping raptness about how water makes its presence in nature from the deepest lake in the World.  Russia’s Lake Baikal, to Greenland, Venezuela, and […]