“The Thursday Murder Club” Provides a Cozy Mystery
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.

Lo Rojo is an experimental collaboration between a musician, a filmmaker and a dancer. The film obsessively explores the dancer's movement to the rhythm of Murga, the popular Mardi Gras music of Buenos Aires. The gaze of the camera enters the female body, making its shapes explode into multiple fragments: the heartbeat, the blood, the red.
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.
I understand that this would have been consistent with the language used by that generation, due to its role in the medical profession, however as someone who has family members with Down Syndrome I took it very personally.
As a huge fan of Sean Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, I’ve wanted to watch Anora since before it even was released. But life got in the way, my watchlist grew, and honestly, the fact that it was marketed as a romantic comedy put me off. Even with all the critical praise and the five Academy Awards it won last year, I just kept postponing it indefinitely.
The movie is centered around the title character who goes on a Christmas adventure.
The 1950s lesbian romance is stunning, emotional, restrained, and, simply put, one of the best movies I’ve ever seen depicting a woman-loving-woman (WLW) relationship.
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.