Peneflix

THE OUTRUN (in theatres)

We have been doused/soused with a plethora of movies dealing with the vicissitudes of alcoholic wome…
WHITE BIRD (In theatres)

For decades multitudes of books, documentaries and movies have focused on the ugliness of the undrea…
JOKER: FOLIE a DEUX (in theatres)

“Folie a Deux” a colloquialism for two crazies hooking up, and there are no finer templates than “Ar…
MEGALOPOLIS (in theatres)

Francis Ford Coppola (1939-) in his dotage must have had a petit mal seizure, an hallucination; crea…
LEE (in theatres)

Lee Miller (1907-1977) was a woman of prodigious substance, a feminine force, a rule bender, barrier…
THE SUBSTANCE (in theatres)

Mephistopheles is cackling from his eighth level of hell, as “Elizabeth Sparkle” (magically sculpted…
THE CRITIC (in theatres)

Regardless of its Greek and Latin origins, defined as “able to discern”, the critic’s role, to judge…
THE PERFECT COUPLE (NETFLIX)

An oxymoronic title is the first hint of what is to come, and it plays out deliciously in Christie/H…
MOTHERS’ INSTINCT (streaming)

Sorrowful, adulterated talents of Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in this totally irrational scen…
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (in theatres)

Gut-wrenching, supremely intelligent, empathetically profound, director/writer Azazel Jacobs squeeze…
WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR (streaming)

Recommended by my star-powered, producer nephew, Will Anderson, I lustily viewed with vast anticipat…
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (in theatres)

You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate this enchanting slice of life that owns no bias, parameter…