Review: “A Haunting in Venice”

You have to give Kenneth Branagh some credit. Revealing no flagging interest in Agatha Christie and her famed investigator creation, Hercules Poirot, following his film versions of two of her most famous works, Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, with a loose adaptation of one of Christie’s lesser known Poirot tales, […]

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: ”Marvelous and the Black Hole”

Sammy (Miya Cech) is angry. Her mother passed away within the last few years, and the 13-year-old channels her grief through acts of aggression at school (vandalism, and a fight that leaves her with a black eye) and home. She smokes and uses foul language. She shuts out her older sister Sue (Jae Suh Park) […]