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Review: The Last Breath

— by WILLIAM STERR —

These days, it seems like every week is Shark Week. There is a plethora of movies available featuring a variety of sharks right up to the venerable “Meg 2.” Of course, the most popular bad boy is the Great White and in “The Last Breath” the usual suspects, er, victims gather to be eaten in a variety of entertaining ways.

Levi (Julian Sands in his final performance) has been searching for the wreck of the SS Charlotte, a WWII gunship that disappeared in the Caribbean. We know this thanks to an opening sequence in which the Charlotte was sunk by one of the Great Whites of the war, a German U-boat, with any survivors mopped up by hungry sharks. There is an especially nice sequence of the torpedo launch and travel before striking. (CONTINUED)


Review: Deadland

— by WILLIAM STERR — Things are rough along the southern border of the United States. People are always trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico. It is the job of the Border Patrol to intercept these people – the first step in sending them back. Angel Waters (Roberto Urbina – “Snowpiercer”), Salome Veracruz […][...]


Review: Heart of an Oak (Le Chene)

— by WILLIAM STERR — Many’s the time I’ve walked through a forest, admiring the trees and the occasional bird or squirrel – maybe even a deer if I’m lucky. You probably have too. But there is so much more to see and know. The new nature documentary “Heart of an Oak” was created to […][...]


Review: Green Border

— by BEV QUESTAD — Excruciatingly frustrating and heartbreaking, famed Polish director Agnieszka Holland has created a courageously accurate drama based on true events that I am calling The Film of the Decade. In 2021 Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, president of Belarus since 1994, let it be known that his country would allow refugees to pass […][...]


Review: The Moor

— by WILLIAM STERR — England is famous for its moors. These deceivingly appear to be barren spots, eons old, where small plants and moss have grown, forming treacherous bogs. In olden days, human sacrifices were made there, and the bodies of criminals and enemies were tossed in, only to sink below the murky surface […][...]


Review: Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

— by BEV QUESTAD — Perhaps Rita is the cleaning lady for the church, or perhaps she is a lady who voluntarily brings cleaning supplies to the church to clean. She badly tries to be helpful and wants a miracle. The film appears to end after 30 minutes. Credits roll and we seem to have […][...]


Review: About Dry Grasses

— by BEV QUESTAD — Nuri Bilge Ceylan uses light, a distinctive feature of his Rembrandt-like cinematography, to expose the interior mood of his characters. The shadows of darkness in secret meetings and the stark, cold snow landscape in “About Dry Grasses” reflect a brooding, cold, detached presence in the soul of the principle character. […][...]


Review: Shadow Land

— by WILLIAM STERR — Fictional former President Robert Wainwright (John Voight – “Megalopolis”) has retired to his expansive ranch, “Shadow Land.” As he plans his memoir, he assembles a team including Rachel Donnelly (Rhona Mitra – “Archive”) to write the book and Elliot Davrow (Marton Scokas – “Sleeping Dogs”), his former psychiatrist, to help […][...]


Review: What Remains

— by WILLIAM STERR — Wow! What an excavation of the human psyche, from three different, solitary sufferers’ points of view. In “What Remains,” three broken people interact while trying to solve a mystery. Sture Bergwall (Gustaf Skarsgard – “Oppenheimer”) has been an inmate in a psychiatric hospital for years. He’s an admitted child molester […][...]



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