3 April 2026 THE CRUISE **** This self-promoting philosopher and poet will have you falling in love with Manhattan, for he’s an iconoclastic guide on a double-decker tourist bus in the Big Apple. Despite a strangely high pitched voice (that’s shocking at first…), Timothy Levitch astounds with his knowledge and appreciation of history, literature, the […]
FILM: HOW TO MAKE A KILLING – entertainment with a satisfying twist
27 March 2026 HOW TO MAKE A KILLING (L’Ultime Héritier) **1/2 With all the misery, injustice and wars going on around the world, it’s not a bad idea to sometimes go to the movies just for escapism. And this is a good pick if you’re looking for entertainment with a satisfying twist. Its double entendre […]
FILM: LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES ***1/2 – a study of French collaboration
20 March 2026 LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES ***1/2 (vo French and German) Here is a thorough study of the eternal question of what it is to be a collaborator. In this true story of journalist Jean Luchaire and his actress daughter Corinne, who were known as notorious French collaborators with the Nazis during WWII, […]
FILM: VICTOR COMME TOUT LE MONDE **** (vo French) – a grand tribute to the richness of French literature
13 March 2026 Films are coming out in streams and this week we have 6 to review – 4 of them French, the other 2 – mediocre works in English. So they will be short reviews, just to direct you towards the right cinematic pleasure. Voilà – VICTOR COMME TOUT LE MONDE **** (vo French) […]
FILM: THE BRIDE! *1/2 – just pretentious
6 March 2026 This is a week for two strange, disturbing films. Nothing to run to. THE BRIDE! *1/2 Because of the illustrious names involved, critics are salivating over this film. As I was, until I saw it in IMAX at Balexert for the press screening. Here are the names: the talented Maggie Gyllenhaal as […]
FILM: EPIC – ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT **** – one exciting ride!
27 February 2026 EPIC – ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT **** This is one exciting ride! Here’s the fantastic re-living of the concerts Elvis gave during his seven-year Las Vegas residency at the height of his career in the 1970s, plus intimate interviews with him and flashbacks to his beginnings, his family and his loves. This […]
FILM: MARTY SUPREME ***1/2 – Watch out for the Oscars
20 February 2026 MARTY SUPREME ***1/2 How does one describe such a frenetic film? Especially one that concerns a scrawny Jewish kid from Manhattan’s Lower East Side whose whole life is about becoming champion in the ping pong world of the 1950s. His ambition has no limits and he’ll steal, lie and grovel through any […]
FILM: WUTHERING HEIGHTS ** an extravagant, steamy, Hollywoodized romance
13 February 2026 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Hurlevent) ** Emily Brontë wrote only this one novel which was published the year before she died at age 30, in 1848. Its dark gothic tale of the deep, tormented love between the two main protagonists, Katherine and Heathcliff, nevertheless became one of the most read and contentious novels of […]
FILM: RENTAL FAMILY *** a gratifying tale of human connections
6 February 2026 RENTAL FAMILY *** (English and Japanese) Brendan Fraser, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his powerful performance in 2022 for “The Whale”, plays here an American actor who is trying to make a living in Japan, where he first came to make some commercials. He stayed on, learned the language, now […]
FILM: NUREMBERG ***
30 January 2026 NUREMBERG *** This film shows one of the first and most important of the 12 Nuremberg Military Tribunals after WWII. Important, as the trial it covers had some of the top men in Hitler’s inner circle. It included Rudolf Hess, Karl Dönitz and of course the notorious Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, second-in-command to […]
