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The director Paul Mazursky, a master of the social satire and the topical movie, has died.  He’s chiefly (and rightly) being remembered for his...

Dick Powell and Rhonda Fleming in CRY DANGER Cry Danger (1951) is one of my favorite noirs because it’s so much more than the story of a guy trying to...

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In Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy deliver remarkable portraits of a partnership facing the inevitability of...

Photo caption: Greta Lee, John Magaro and Teo Yoo in PAST LIVES. Courtesy of A24 Past Lives is a profound romance, with one evolving relationship, and then a...

1.  The Giant Claw (1957):  This was a giant bird that could grab jetliners in its claws.  It was constructed for the film by a Mexican puppet-maker. ...

Delroy Lindo in DA 5 BLOODS. Photo courtesy of Netflix. This week: an absurdist comedy from Korea, a doc that gives voice to trans creatives, an insightful...

Jake Robinson and Thomas Sadoski in THE MIMIC. Photo courtesy of Cinequest. In the offbeat and cerebral comedy The Mimic, a widowed screenwriter (Thomas...

DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS This year’s San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, opening April 23, presents the richest Skate/Surf program that I’ve...

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In the light but smart comedy Goodbye to All That, a guy (Paul Schneider) is slobberknocked when his wife demands a divorce.  Trying to right himself, he...

Polyester Poontang played by Joan Collins in Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969). Yes, Heironymus is also on my list...

In Novitiate, a young girl (Margaret Qualley) from a broken family finds comfort and stability in the Catholic Church  As a teen, she plunges into a spiritual...

In the superb indie Auggie, Felix (Richard Kind) is pushed into retirement before he wants.  He’s given a goodbye gift that he never would have thought...

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Photo caption: Porshia Zimiga (left) in EAST OF WALL. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. This Week on The Movie Gourmet – new reviews of the engrossing...

Miguel Inclán and Marga López in SALON MEXICO Salón México (1949) is a cabaretera, a uniquely Mexican genre about a woman with a heart of gold who is...

Here’s what you want in a disaster movie: 1) a really impressive disaster and 2) lots of suspense about which of the main characters will survive.  The...

Not everyone experiences love in the same way, and the SLO Film Fest has curated a program of short films that reflect that diversity.  The five films, which...

My DVD/Stream of the Weeks is a fine first feature with a GREAT title for a contemporary noir thriller: Bad Turn Worse. It’s set in a nowheresville Texas...

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Jean Rochefort in SYMPHONY FOR A MASSACRE I’ve always enjoyed Noir City, the Film Noir Foundation’s flagship film festival, but I found the 2024...

Zbigniew Cybulski in ASHES AND DIAMONDS A masterful director and his charismatic star ignite the war-end thriller Ashes and Diamonds, set amidst war-end...

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In His Kind of Woman. Robert Mitchum plays a down-and-out gambler who is offered a deal that MUST be too good to be true; he’s smart enough to be...

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Throughout the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILMFestival), I’ll be linking more festival coverage to this page, including both...

In Born to Be Blue, Ethan Hawke plays jazzman Chet Baker as he seeks to overcome his heroin addiction and mount an artistic comeback. Writer-director Robert...

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Photo caption: Eve Connolly in SEW TORN. Courtesy of Vertigo Releasing. Sew Torn is the first thriller (or movie) I’ve seen where the main...

Here are the 50 or so movies that I consider the all time best – just for some insight into my taste. Casablanca, The Godfather and The Godfather: Part...

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the 37th annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF37), opens this Thursday. The SFJFF is the world’s oldest Jewish film festival, and, with a 2016...

Alice Englert and Elle Fanning in GINGER & ROSA The title characters in Ginger & Rosa are 17-year-old best friends in 1962 London.  Through each stage...

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Please make every attempt to see the best movie of the year, now in Bay Area theaters: the emotionally powerful coming of age drama Leave No Trace from Debra...

Reed Harkness in SAM NOW. Courtesy of HA/HA Productions. In the surprisingly complex documentary Sam Now, two brothers go on a road trip to solve a family...

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A scene from Kentucker Audley’s and Albert Birney’s film STRAWBERRY MANSION, playing at the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival, April 9...

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The title of the harrowing thriller ’71 refers to the tumultuous year 1971 in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.  An ill-prepared unit of British...

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In The Deep Blue Sea, an ordinary love triangle becomes a profound tragedy.   A woman (Rachel Weisz) leaves her affluent and prestigious older husband (Simon...

It’s history.  Now we all know that the subprime mortgage scam blew up in 2007 and brought global banking to its knees by September 2008.  The...

The gripping visually spectacular Gravity is less a sci-fi film than it is a basic Man Against Nature (mostly Woman Against Nature) survival tale set in space....

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Raymond David Taylor in CATERPILLAR. Courtesy of NashFilm. While the Nashville Film Festival has its share of high-profile movies, don’t miss the gems that...

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Photo caption: Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in Raoul Peck’s FOE, screening at the Nashville Film Festival. Courtesy of Amazon Studios. The Nashville...

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Set in 1962, Green Book is the story of Tony Lip (a burly Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer at the Copacabana, who is enlisted to accompany a...

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Here’s my list of the best films of 2012: 1) The Kid with a Bike, 2) Beasts of the Southern Wild, 3) Argo, 4) Lincoln, 5) Zero Dark Thirty, 6) A...

It’s Oscars Weekend and it’s pretty easy to find the favorite, La La Land, in theaters.  My personal favorite, Hell or High Water, is available to...

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Photo caption: Michael James Kelly and Elizabeth Hirsch-Tauber in 12 MONTHS, world premiere at Cinequest. Courtesy of Cinequest. This week on The Movie Gourmet...

Barbara Stanwyck in WITNESS TO MURDER In Witness to Murder, Richter (George Sanders) and Cheryl (Barbara Stanwyck) live in neighboring apartments. Cheryl...

WILLOW. Photo courtesy of Cinequest. Willow is a triptych by Oscar-nominated master Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski that plumbs the heartaches and joys...

According to the Old Testament, “the iniquity of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons”.  Indeed, the successes and flaws of fathers, and the...

Photo caption: Trey Holland and Romina D’Ugo in Woody Bess’ PORTAL TO HELL. Courtesy of Portal to Hell LLC It’s time for the 31st Slamdance Film...

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BEFORE THE FIRE: world premiere at Cinequest. Photo courtesy of Cinequest. Throughout Cinequest, I link festival coverage to this page, including both features...

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The subversive documentary Under the Sun is a searing insight into totalitarian North Korean society, all from government-approved filming that tells a...

The one thing that Harry Fabian is good at is finding suckers, but he doesn’t realize that the biggest sucker is Harry Fabian. Night in the City (1950)...

Okay, here’s a jaw dropper.  In the chilling documentary The Act of Killing, perpetrators of genocide in Indonesia are asked to re-enact their murders...

Ben Gazzara and Denholm Elliott in SAINT JACK. Courtesy of New World Pictures. The cynical neo-noir Saint Jack is set in Vietnam War-era Singapore and features...

Another struggling Hollywood artist is the heart of Booze Boys and Brownies, and this, time, she bursts into song.  She’s an actress unlucky in both...

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is the surprisingly moving biodoc of Fred Rogers, the originator and host of the PBS children’s program The Mr....

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Jennifer Levinson in TRUST. Courtesy of Menemsha Films. Throughout Cinequest, I link festival coverage to this page, including both features and movie...

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Photo caption: Cooper Hoffman (kneeling), Lamorne Morris, Cory Michael Scott. Ella Hunt, Emily Fairn, Kim Matula and Dylan O’Brien in SATURDAY NIGHY....

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The dystopian sci-fi satire High-Rise, adapted from a J.G. Ballard novel, makes a droll and cynical comment on our species.  Taking place in the near future,...

Here’s an interview with the Lori Stoll, writer-director of Heaven’s Floor. [NOTE: THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS] The Movie Gourmet: The...

The title character in Dom Hemingway is always in a determined hurry, one of those guys whose brow is always 12 inches in front of his feet.  He is played by...

Rosamund Pike in GONE GIRL In the marvelously entertaining Gone Girl, Ben Affleck plays Nick, a good-looking lug who can turn a phrase. At a party one night,...

The Dark Corner offers three elements of film noir – striking black and white cinematography, edgy patter and an inventive plot – and throws in...

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Photo caption: ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is an unusually profound, revealing and unsentimental...