With a budget of almost two-hundred million dollars and twenty-million-dollar salaries for its three stars, the new Netflix release “Red Notice” exploded onto the streaming service this past weekend.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds are the three big-name stars that are a studio head’s dream cast. What does two-hundred million and three of the biggest Hollywood heavy-hitters get you?”

The past. Guilt, tragedy, regret, what we wish we could leave behind stays with us, sometimes becoming our life's burden.

In the new film “Time Now,” Jenny (Eleanor Lambert) returns home to Detroit years after a falling-out with her family, when her brother Victor (Sebastian Beacon) dies in a car accident.

To make sense of her brother’s life in the city, Jenny interacts with his inner

Experimental filmmaker Nobuhiko Ōbayashi was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2016. His team of doctors feared the director had only three months to live.

Ōbayashi defied the odds (although he was very ill) and made two more films before his death (three years after his diagnosis), 2017’s “Hanagatami” and this year’s “Labyrinth of Cinema” which was completed in 2019.

Alienation is unhealthy, it is not good for the psyche. Fading into the background with no friends or acquaintances, people who go unnoticed would do almost anything to have their voice heard and for someone to see them. Loneliness and an uncaring world can drive some people to madness.

In Aneil Karia’s “Surge,” we meet one such person, a man at the breaking point.

The slasher film has always been one of the most popular genres in horror films. It can be argued that slasher horror was born of “Psycho.” If that film was the grandfather of the slasher genre, the spark was lit fourteen years later with Bob Clark’s 1974 treasure “Black Christmas” and became a full-blown inferno of popularity when filmmaker John Carpenter made “Halloween” in 1978. After the phenomenal success

There is no comprehensive government data on the topic of police brutality, no real accountability.

According to the Lancet more than half of all police killings since 1980 do not appear in official government data. The undercounted police killings of Black Americans, particularly, is odious.

The brutal truth about these “United” States of America is that the country was founded on oppression and division, all of which culminated in an often-false rewriting of history.

Case in point: the Civil War was fought over the right to own slaves. This fact is undebatable. 

Rachel Boynton’s documentary, “Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) is a relevant and important film about how t