Peneflix has been at war with the Internet and the result was not even Pyrrhic; the Internet ate her 62nd CIFF reviews. They will be addressed as they are distributed. Thank you for your patience and loyalty. Helen Mirren has the time of her life depicting Patricia Highsmith in the waning days of her life. It is a fictional version …

The first scene in the film is the most telling; a young woman on a lonely highway, waiting for AAA to aid her failed automobile reacts insanely to two police officers who have offered to help her. She filmed her scathing, vitriolic, racist attack on the innocent police. Later, whistleblower Frances Haugen (b.1984) depicted depth- fully by actor Mikey Madison …

Confusing. There were moments that I reveled in my presence experiencing director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s latest film (“Amores Perros”, “The Revenant”, “Birdman”) unfortunately they were transcended by too many scenes of failed expectations, embarrassment and grotesqueness. Tom Cruise (I am a lifelong  admirer) is a homely, aging billionaire oil tycoon, in thick prosthetic makeup and fat suit as “Digger  Rockwell”, …