Review
The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.
At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
Jacques Cousteau’s journey, from wannabe pilot to protector of the seas, is chronicled in a new documentary.
Syfy’s latest iteration of the killer doll remains as campy and violent as ever.
The Sum of Us shows how the economic and political powers-that-be have exploited race to split Americans into warring tribes trapped in a zero-sum game fighting for what’s left after the top 1% take 40% of the wealth.
Even if this is a commercial confection, it’s worth taking seriously because it is very likely to be Tony Bennett’s final album.
Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
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