Fair enough! I love a good movie about crooked cops whose dads were crooked cops or whatever, or maybe they aren't crooked but their dads' partners were crooked? Or sometimes they are crooked but…   Read Story »

Pain is relative, duh. On the scale of human suffering, my Sunday nights are ICE CREAM SOCIALS. That doesn't mean that I don't actually cry out in pain during some of these movies. I do. But I…   Read Story »

Chinese director Hou Hsiao Hsi has reinterpreted the classic short film, The Red Balloon, inflating it with all kinds of powerful statements about childhood and bad parenting and home-done hairstyles…   Read Story »