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Review: ‘High Tide’ Drives Its Protagonist to Find Himself

Oct 16, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chuck Wilson |R.C. Baker

In High Tide, the superb debut feature written and directed by Marco Calvani, a 30-something undocumented Brazilian immigrant named Lourenço (Marco Pigossi) finds himself abandoned in Provincetown, Massachusetts, by the boyfriend he followed to America. There are worse things, most will say, especially when they see the splendid vine-covered cottage Lourenço is renting from his boyfriend’s longtime friend Scott (Bill Irwin).
Review: ‘Between the Temples’ goes from the head to the heart

Sep 2, 2024 | marinatimes.com | Chuck Wilson

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved. He’s Ben Gottlieb, a recently widowed cantor in an upstate New York synagogue who finds himself unable to sing; she’s Carla O’Connor (née Kessler), a retired music teacher who decides, 57 years after her 13th birthday, to study for her bat mitzvah.
Review: ‘Between the Temples’ Goes From the Head to the Heart

Aug 23, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chuck Wilson |R.C. Baker |T.J. English

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved. He’s Ben Gottlieb, a recently widowed cantor in an upstate New York synagogue who finds himself unable to sing; she’s Carla O’Connor (née Kessler), a retired music teacher who decides, 57 years after her 13th birthday, to study for her bat mitzvah.
Review: ‘Between the Temples’ Goes From the Head to the Heart

Aug 23, 2024 | laweekly.com | Chuck Wilson

A film as eccentric as its main characters, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples offers perennial scene stealers Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane the lead roles they’ve long deserved. He’s Ben Gottlieb, a recently widowed cantor in an upstate New York synagogue who finds himself unable to sing; she’s Carla O’Connor (née Kessler), a retired music teacher who decides, 57 years after her 13th birthday, to study for her bat mitzvah.
Review: ‘Crossing’ Traverses Borders and Boundaries

Jul 18, 2024 | laweekly.com | Chuck Wilson

Crossing, the moving new film from Levan Akin, writer/director of the much loved And Then We Danced, opens with a woman known to all as Miss Lia (Mzia Arbuli) striding by the beach outside the Georgian town of Batsumi, along the Black Sea. A retired history teacher, she appears to be heading somewhere specific, but Lia will turn out to be a woman who always walks with purpose, even when completely out of her depth, as she is now.
Review: ‘Crossing’ Traverses Borders and Boundaries

Jul 17, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chuck Wilson

Crossing, the moving new film from Levan Akin, writer/director of the much loved And Then We Danced, opens with a woman known to all as Miss Lia (Mzia Arbuli) striding by the beach outside the Georgian town of Batsumi, along the Black Sea. A retired history teacher, she appears to be heading somewhere specific, but Lia will turn out to be a woman who always walks with purpose, even when completely out of her depth, as she is now.
Review: ‘Camp Snoopy’ brings pathos and joy to a boy and his dog tale

Jun 25, 2024 | lakerlutznews.com | Chuck Wilson

The GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club will host a bingo event on June 25 at 5 p.m., at Beef O’ Brady’s, 18421 U.S. 41 in Lutz, to benefit club member Linda Mitchell’s run for Lutz Guv’na. A portion of all food and beverage sales will be donated to Mitchell’s campaign, which will benefit the Lutz community. The event will include door prizes, opportunity baskets and drawings. The cost is $10 for 10 games.
Review: ‘Janet Planet’ Revolves Around a Mother Who Eclipses Her Daughter

Jun 18, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chuck Wilson

The remarkable mother-daughter drama Janet Planet opens with a wonderfully staged comic moment. It is late at night in the Massachusetts countryside, circa 1991, and a redheaded girl in round glasses runs from a trailer to a nearby barn and makes a call on the wall-mounted payphone.
Review: ‘Camp Snoopy’ Brings Pathos and Joy to a Boy and His Dog Tale

Jun 13, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chuck Wilson

Everything I know about summer camp I learned at the movies … and now from Camp Snoopy, the delightful new Apple TV series created, in part, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peanuts’ universe’s Beagle Scouts. Snoopy’s round-headed pal, Charlie Brown, is, of course, an old hand at summer camp fun (and its emotional complexities). He’s been going there since June 5, 1965, the day the late cartoonist Charles M.
Review: ‘Sting’ Brings Some Serious Bite

Apr 9, 2024 | laweekly.com | Chuck Wilson

“Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are,” declares Rubeus Hagrid in the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Hagrid is mourning Aragog, the enormous talking spider that terrified Ron Weasley and was thought sweetly benign by Hagrid. Benign and misunderstood are words that will never be applied to the spider that descends from space to maraud through a New York brownstone in Sting, a terrific new horror movie from Australian writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner.