‘The North’ is a new debut feature film from Bart Schrijver, about male vulnerability.

‘The North’ (2026)  – The message is lost amidst the mist of the Highlands (Review)

When the world is on fire, thank goodness there’s art to temporarily remind us of the beauty of life.  This is the heart of The Choral, a WW1 period piece that evokes universal truths about art and the horrors of war.  Ralph Fiennes delivers another memorable performance as the arrogant conductor tasked with the impossible.  Recommended.

The Choral

In Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the myth roars back to life in this mostly successful adaptation.  Jacob Elordi’s performance is a standout, while Oscar Isaac is miscast.  Filled with beautiful and grotesque imagery, the film struggles for greatness and occasionally reaches it.  Recommended.

Frankenstein (2025, Netflix)

Well, let’s put it bluntly: think a combination of Crawl and plenty of Jaws and Sharknado touches to make the latest Netflix feature, Thrash. The only difference is that you’re most likely to forget the Netflix motion picture the quickest once you move on to the next thing. This writer admits that being eclectic is […]

Thrash – Review

Roofman is a heartfelt movie that entertains the old fashioned way, with interesting characters and winning performances.  Channing Tatum and Kristen Dunst are engaging in the leading roles, and Tatum’s performance represents a career best.  It’s movie magic rendered at human scale.  Recommended.

A lonely OB-GYN in a rural Georgian hospital faces allegations of malpractice in Kulumbegashvili’s brutally slow-paced, if quietly devastating, sophomore feature—a Haneke-esque moral inquiry marked by hypnotic long takes and sublime use of film language.

By Marc S. Sanders Only the headlining actors’ names appear before the title of the film, Lucy, but ten minutes into it I should have known I was watching a Luc Besson actioner.  It’s over the top and proudly exaggerated in its fiction like Leon: The Professional or The Fifth Element.  Because this one has Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman talking […]

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy offers an interesting take on the Egyptology horror genre. It’s perhaps best described as being about two very different families, one American, one Egyptian. We spend most of the film with the American family, the Cannons, who are living in Cairo, and whose life is thrown into chaos when their daughter […]