Movie Reviews

A French author of detective novels jump-starts his stalled imagination on a winter trip to the coldest town in France in Poupoupidou. Writer-director Gerald Hustache-Mathieu’s second feature (after 2006’s equally offbeat Avril) boasts its own comic rhythms and succeeds in breathing fresh life into the ‘meet-quirky-locals-while-solving-a-crime’ genre.   Candice appears in flashbacks and also provides a Sunset Boulevard-style narration from beyond the grave.   This modest, but forthright and assured, little picture has potential for gay fests, festivals in general and distributors who pride themselves on material that is NOT remake fodder for the salutary reason that it fits no Read the full article…

I have a tendency to read the cinema section in magazines, that’s how I build my movie rental waiting list, and then… they are knocked out one by one!!   The movie “Confessions” did not make the list!!!! Japanese rom-com??? That’s what it sounds like to me. <> But “Confessions” isn’t. I accidentally selected it one day. Had I not done that, I wouldn’t have known that it’s a suspense thriller, and it’s friggin’ awesome~~~~   The Plot: The death of a junior high school teacher’s daughter, Manami, was ruled accidental; however, the teacher deduced that the perpetrators are her Read the full article…