Mavis Geary is at a crossroads in her life. No, make that a dead end. She’s in her 30’s, recently divorced, ghostwriting a series of Teen Novels that are about to be canceled, and living a comfortable existence, albeit lonely, with her tiny dog in a new high rise apartment in the center of Minneapolis. … Continue reading
Sophie and Jason are a pair of slackers in their 30s’ who live in LA and both have jobs that they can barely tolerate. He works on an IT Support Helpline from home, and she is the worst ever dance teacher for young kids. They have been together for about 4 years with no talk … Continue reading
It’s not often that the main character of a movie is so annoying that I just want to slap her legs hard in the hope that she will stop being so irritating, but this is one such case. And in fact now I think about the rest of the cast, I would probably want to slap … Continue reading
This ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time … Continue reading
Once in a while even movies can dispense with its usual stereotypes and can tell us an old story with a fresh set of characters. This debut feature from filmmaker Kevin Asche is a drug smuggling story where the baddies are neither African Americans or Italian Mafia but actually Hassidic Jews, and evidently its all … Continue reading