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FAGARA (MANDARIN: ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

Director/writer Heiward Mak has taken an overwrought, stale scenario and revitalized it with a charm...
HUSTLERS

On occasion you see a movie infused with decent acting but leaves one wondering why it was worthy of...
THE GOLDFINCH

Donna Tartt’s 2014’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel translates into an anemic, poorly edit...
FIDDLER: MIRACLE OF MIRACLES

For as many times as I have seen “Fiddler of the Roof”, this documentary written and dir...
OFFICIAL SECRETS

The Official Secrets Act: 1989, Act of Parliament, UK, removing the public interest defense, prohibi...
AQUARELA

Director Viktor Kossakovsky’s bludgeoning, bombastic documentary on man’s insignificance...
BENNETT’S WAR

Pulverizing, thrilling from its commencement in war ravaged Afghanistan; Marshall Bennett (phenomena...
READY OR NOT

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Out of desperation I visited this “...
BOLLYWOOD DOUBLE HEADER: BATLA HOUSE & MISSION MANGAL (HINDI: ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

What makes both of these films highly watchable is that they are based on actual events and more imp...
ANGEL HAS FALLEN

Predictability, sensationalism, oftentimes, can be comforting; knowing the “hero” will b...
AFTER THE WEDDING

If a foreign film deeply resonates, oftentimes the American version, is acutely disappointing; two ...
THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

A yummy, creamy, crunchy slice of filmic fun; directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz in “...