Berlinale Review: “Small Things Like These”

It’s probably too pat to say so, but it really is about the small things: the tiniest occurrences that can trigger a memory that can in turn prompt emotions normally kept tucked down deep inside to roil to the surface. Irish writer Claire Keegan’s short story Foster was adapted into a wrenching film directed by […]

Review: “Oppenheimer”

It’s a thorny subject, one usually entered into with reticence. That the United States military’s dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to end a war that was already effectively over was a horrid act is more of a fact than an opinion nowadays. Upwards of 200,000 […]

Review: “A Quiet Place Part II”

So many of my memories of movies are inextricably linked to watching them in the theater. I don’t necessarily believe that a movie is better or worse depending on where and how you watch it. But the experience around watching a movie at home, on your TV, on a computer, in crowded a theater, in […]