If you're looking for a mid-budget, action thriller, this film is yet another to toss on the pile. It centers on two people on the run in a hostile country where the narrative involves those two people trying to escape that country. There have been a number of those kinds of films over the y…

Some people first heard of the name Bert Kreischer in 2002 because the film National Lampoon's Van Wilder was based on a 1997 Rolling Stone article that named Kreischer "the top partyer at the Number One Party School." Kreischer would often engage in heavy drinking and public nudity. He beca…

Brazil's official submission to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature didn't make the shortlist, but it's one of a few films to center on a Black family and include queer characters. Afro-Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Martins is also dealing with interesting thematic ide…

The official submission from Morocco to the 95th Academy Awards made the shortlist, but it didn't get the nomination. However, the fact that Morocco selected this film is strange. It's strange given that the country is one of a few nations that still has homosexuality as being illegal and ga…

Despite its title, it's arguably the eleventh entry in the franchise but for purposes here, it's the tenth film that began with The Fast and the Furious (2001). It follows a criminal turned international spy who commits heists for himself or on behalf of the government in order to stop more …

Nominated for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, this film was the official submission from Belgium. Lukas Dhont is the writer-director who was only 30 years-old when he made it and it's only his second feature. His debut was Girl (2019), which was about a teenager dealin…

40 years ago, Mel Brooks wrote, produced, directed and starred in History of the World: Part I (1981). Brooks has only directed about a dozen or so films and History of the World: Part I was one of his least successful. It didn't do as well as his two biggest hits, which also garnered his Os…

Debora Cahn is a writer-producer who has worked on such successful, political programs, such as The West Wing (1999) and Homeland (2011). If you liked the inside baseball of the White House or the comings-and-goings of the CIA, then Cahn provides a mashup of those things in this series. Cahn…

Based on the book by Judy Blume, this film tells the seminal, coming-of-age story about a prepubescent girl, dealing with female bodily changes and how she relates those changes with other girls in her class, as well as her relationship with her mother. Why the book was controversial was due…