I recently got a request for Netflix recommendations, which isn't in itself unusual. Turns out, she'd just signed up for an account for the first time in years (the last time she was a subscriber, it was to receive DVDs), and she needed a little guidance on what to queue up first. To likely no one's ...
Archives for April 2020
Review: Sorry We Missed You
The title of Ken Loach's latest working-class drama, Sorry We Missed You, is a reference to the notes Ricky (Kris Hitchen) leaves when he can't complete the package deliveries on his route. But it could also refer to what Ricky and his family have missed, how despite doing everything they're ...
Review: Love. Wedding. Repeat
Netflix's latest rom-com, Love. Wedding. Repeat, is an adaptation of a 2012 French film called Plan de table, a film that as far as I can gather never had much of a release outside of France and Italy and even then was not terribly well received. Writer/director Dean Craig adapts the story ...
Review: The Whistlers
Though he's been a productive filmmaker for the last twenty years or so, I wasn't familiar with writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu's work until The Whistlers, a heist film that manages to entertain with plenty of originality even if it gets itself tied up in a few narrative knots here and ...
Review: The Other Lamb
Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska's dramatic feature In the Name Of... won the award for Best Feature Film at 2013's Berlin Film Festival and received a sufficiently warm welcome when it was release in the US later that year. Since then, she's directed a couple of other Polish-language titles ...