Witty, hilarious, slightly disturbing, mind-boggling… While some people opt to avoid advertising if they can (leaving the room to make a cup of tea, fast-forwarding through them, arriving at the cinema late) many...
Comedies for adults come along so rarely these days, it’s a pleasure to have one to praise. Directed by Craig Zisk from a smart, perceptive script by Stacy and Dan Chariton, The English Teacher is set in a small town in...
If you’re not a Woody Allen fan – and I am not – you may have trouble relating to writer/director Sophie Lellouche’s pleasant if uninspiring chick flick whose hook – the main character’s obsession with the famously...
For most of its running time, Violeta Went to Heaven plays out as an engaging although not quite intimate biopic – an illuminative portrait of Chilean singer and artist Violeta Parra (Francisca Gavilán), whose music...
Adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s Classic Novel Looks Pretty, Lacks Depth Review by Deborah Klugman Rudolfo Anaya’s coming of age novel Bless Me, Ultima, was published in 1972 at a time when cultural and racial barriers...