Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Fret not.
Escape to a time pre Covid 19 is at hand.
ECHO IN THE CANYON documents the mid-60s phenom that grew out of Los Angeles’ Laurel Canyon as folk went electric and gave birth to the California sound, creating …
Deer o deer o deer!
DEERSKIN has Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin as recent divorcee, Georges, becoming obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. It’s In Fabric gone feral.
We first …
What a croc.
That’s a more suitable and truthful title for BLACK WATER: ABYSS. Or maybe Black Water: Abysmal.
An abyss is fancy word for a pit. Nothing fancy here, it’s the pits.
This tired retread of ropy tropes is …
The last book I read by Nicholas Shakespeare was Oddfellows, a mini masterpiece, a sublimely sparse and economically elegant powder keg of a story, full of untethered emotions, suspicions and latent jealousies, a history of fear overlaid with hate.
Shakespeare’s …
Puppy porn served with your popcorn, that’s 23 WALKS, a gentle and honest romantic ramble, a senior citizen romp com starring two gorgeous dogs, Tilly and Henry.
Tilly, a gentle giant German Shepherd rescue dog is owned by Dave, Henry, …
What’s it worth? Is it worth while? Is it worth whiling away a few hours, to experience a fling? Well, it goes from worth to worth in Hannah Persaud’s debut novel, THE CODES OF LOVE.
An astonishing story of desire …
Talk about facing up to your demons.
Writer/director Keith Thomas’ schlock shock, horror film, THE VIGIL, has post traumatic stress disorder sufferer, Yakov, grudgingly accepting a position as a
shomer, hired to “sit the vigil” and watch over the body …
Golden brown, a terminal temptress, wearing wigs of various tress, parents start to stress, at suitor’s state of dress, succumb to duress, forced to confess, all in a film of brilliant finesse.
With the strains of Zephyr Quartet’s gorgeous rendition …
Punch drunk and ungloved, CALM WITH HORSES marks the feature directorial debut of Nick Rowland.
In dark rural Ireland, ex-boxer Arm has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to …
An appetite for Apatow can come and go.
40 Year Old Virgin can satisfy, Knocked Up may not. One of his films was the aptly named Trainwreck.
Thankfully, Mr. Apatow’s latest directorial effort, THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND is a …