Gerald Peary

Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 4

May 15, 2020
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Six more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.

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Film Reviews: Even More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 3

May 6, 2020
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.

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Film Reviews: More Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place — Stir-Crazy 2

April 26, 2020
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Here are five more appealing feature films and their links, handpicked to get you pleasurably through the Covid-19 days. Two need to be rented, three are free.

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Film Reviews: Movies to Watch While Sheltering in Place

April 23, 2020
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How to avoid going stir-crazy: burrow into the thousands of films available to watch on your computer, most of them free or practically free.

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Film Review: “Color Out of Space” — Unleashing a Primal Desire for Destruction

February 2, 2020
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All in all, Color Out of Space is only OK.

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Film Review: 2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films — No More Than Adequate

January 30, 2020
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Who can explain why two of the five nominees are set in Tunisia? Or why several of them seem like student films?

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Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”

January 3, 2020
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It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.

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Film Review: “Joker” — Here Come the Killer Clowns

October 3, 2019
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Screenwriter-director Todd Phillips knows well what he is doing in the calculated way he escalates the bloodshed in Joker.

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Film Review: A Rundown from the San Sebastian International Film Festival

October 2, 2019
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How is this festival kept off the map from my US colleagues?

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Film Review: “Love, Antosha” — A Poignant Tribute to Actor Anton Yelchin

August 27, 2019
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This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.

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