Valerie Kalfrin

1 week ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Stockton Rush, the late CEO of the commercial underwater company OceanGate, wanted to be the next Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, so much that he used the phrase “big swinging dicks” all the time, an employee notes. Rush’s envy and arrogance powers the documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, a film maddening both for what it reveals but also for what it doesn’t explore.

1 week ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × Fans of sci-fi, action and animation should buckle up for a treat with Predator: Killer of Killers, an anthology about warriors, honor, and vengeance across times and cultures. Set within the universe of the Predator franchise, the film’s stories are coherent enough that one doesn’t need to rewatch the offshoots of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s original 1987 Rumble in the jungle. Yet those who do will be rewarded.

1 week ago | scriptmag.com | Valerie Kalfrin

Ray and Manny are tight. Brothers, just not by blood. They’ve hung together since juvie, through addictions and various scores. Their latest is posing as DEA agents. Slip on official-looking windbreakers, hit a house with some kid watchdogging from the stoop, flash a gun and some attitude, then shake down the street dealers inside.  It’s not like they’ll call the cops. “If you’re good, they don’t remember your face,” says Ray, played by Brian Tyree Henry. “We only take from the weak ones.

2 weeks ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × The documentary Holding Liat focuses a compassionate and introspective lens on the ongoing conflict in Gaza through the conflicting feelings of one Israel-American family whose loved ones were taken hostage by Hamas. Roughly two weeks after the terrorist organization abducted civics teacher Liat Beinin Atzili and her artist husband, Aviv Atzili, during its incursion on Oct.

3 weeks ago | awfj.org | Valerie Kalfrin

0 Flares 0 Flares × The dramedy She Dances is a tender gem, a father-daughter duet with subtly affecting performances from Steve Zahn and his daughter, Ashley Zahn, in her feature debut. Known for quirky supporting roles in films and TV series from Out of Sight to The Righteous Gemstones, Steve Zahn takes the lead here as Jason, a divorced dad chaperoning his daughter, Claire (Ashley Zahn), to a regional dance competition in Kentucky.