Shocking. Controversial. Unforgettable. – Dennis Hopper’s brilliant punk rock masterpiece of adolescent rebellion is ready for a new, long overdue close-up! A kind of spiritual sequel (and cautionary ...

Ho, ho, ho, Hollywood is coming home for the holidays. Oh, but what a home. The domicile featured in this new movie is exquisite, lush, the stuff of “house and garden” fever dreams. But the looks are ...

It’s been three years since I reviewed the earlier episodes of the entertaining Italian procedural, “Petra.” This round not only provides a pleasant return to its picturesque Genoa setting, but gives ...

Serena Rossi as Maria, the bride in the Italian TV mini-series drama “The Bride” (“La Sposa”). Courtesy of MHz Choice Italian TV gives us “The Bride” (“La Sposa”), a dramatic miniseries about a woman ...

This big new studio film release takes a tough look at the social economics system in place today. So, it’s a hard-hitting drama or maybe a “searing” slice-of-life documentary? No, it’s a comedy.

The French trio of procedural dramas, “Sophie Cross” (a/k/a “Crossroads”) starts with a tragedy. The 6-year-old son of a lovely couple, Sophie (Alexia Barlier) and Thomas (Thomas Jouannet) vanishes ...

Familiar and welcome face from several previously-reviewed imported Swedish dramas (“Ragnarok”, “The Bridge”, “Alex Rider”) Sofia Helin returns for six more hourlong episodes of police work in “Fallen ...

When I read the brief summary for the action film, FORBIDDEN CITY, I expected a standard search and avenge tale, rife with martial arts mayhem. A young Chinese woman named Mei (Yaxi Liu) comes to Rome ...

April brings those showers, which may bring May flowers, and bring big box office returns for the movie studios. That’s because one of Pixar’s biggest rivals, Illumination Animation, is joining them ...

The somber crime drama series from Danish TV, “Trom” Season One,” offers several plusses and minuses in its six-episode package. Let’s start with the good side: Ulrich Thomsen stars as a veteran ...

Did you think that the only movie remakes out this year were THE ROSES and THE TOXIC AVENGER (not counting the three live-action remakes of animated features)? Of course not, since the trailer for THE ...

The title of this Finnish crime dramedy series, “Reindeer Mafia (Poromafia),” is a bit misleading. It’s not a major crime syndicate on the tundra. It’s a small club of guys wearing vests with their ...