drama

Freeze Frame: “The Brutalist” (R), “Nickel Boys” (R), “Wolf Man” (R), “Back in Action” (PG-13)

The Golden Globe-winning drama "The Brutalist" is half of a great movie. The first half.  In Brady Corbet's 3 1/2-hour epic, Adrian Brody excels as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the US and struggles to work as an architect. The film's second half meanders and leaves us with...

Freeze Frame: “On the Count of Three” (R), “Operation Mincemeat” (PG-13), “Happening” (R)

Is it possible to find comfort in mutual desperation? The extremely edgy comic drama "On the Count of Three" dares to explore that thorny question in a story about two friends who make a mutual suicide pact. Jerrod Carmichael and Christopher Abbott are excellent, full stop, as lifelong friends who...

Irish Joe and the Dutchman, by Bill Rogers

Irish Joe Nolan (Victor Raider-Wexler), a former boxer turned private investigator is awoken on a dreary Monday morning with the news that someone has shot his Uncle and former business partner. Irish Joe’s investigation into his Uncle’s murder leads him all over the city, eventually getting himself wrapped up with...

There’s Always Room at the Top (from Suspense) (Rebroadcast)

(This is a rebroadcast of Suspense radio series “There’s Always Room at the Top” which originally aired 1/1/21.) When a job interview doesn’t go as expected for a young go-getter, she’s given the opportunity to jump on an unforeseen second chance. But what’s really going on behind closed doors? From the...