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TO STREAM OR NOT TO………………THEREIN LIES THE CONUNDRUM

We have limitless choices on our devices; what in the past was a delicious dilemma, now, can result …
TRUTH & TREASON (STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME, APPLE TV) PERSIAN LESSONS (NETFLIX & AMAZON PRIME)

These were not the films that I had originally planned to review but with universal, raging antisemi…
JAY KELLY (Netflix)

Let’s talk about Adam Sandler. A man/actor I never focused on until 2019’s “Uncut Gems”, a shocking …
FRANKENSTEIN (Netflix)

A perpetual fascination with the man-made creature of “Victor Frankstein”, brought to fruition by Ma…
RENTAL FAMILY (in theatres)

Periodically you see a film that transcends all expectations; a movie that emanates the purest joy, …
WICKED, FOR GOOD 2025 (IN THEATRES)

“Wicked the First” thrilled me to the bones and deeper; it accomplished what a fine film should: stu…
WICKED 2024 (streaming)

Never has wickedness been served so mellifluously, deliciously, supercalifragilisticexpialidociously…
DIE MY LOVE (in theatres)

Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-defining portrait of madness and angst in “Die My Love” based on th…
THE HISTORY OF SOUND (streaming & in theatres)

We are birthed with a cry and die with a sigh, or rattle. Director Oliver Hermamus gifts viewers a p…
THE MASTERMIND (in theatres)

Director Kelly Reichardt’s films creep in through the back door and emerge fully bloomed, in the liv…
PENEFLIX RETURNS: REVITALIZED BY THE 61ST CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Sabbaticals are refreshing, rejuvenating, a time to canvass the unnurtured, unexplored; a time to di…
Peneflix Sabbatical

Dear Subscribers, After close to 20 years, I have decided to take a sabbatical; time to plunder, nur…