This week on The Movie Gourmet – new reviews of the bittersweet A Love Song with Dale Dickey and Wes Studi and the wildly exuberant Everything Everywhere All at Once with Michele Yeoh. Here’s my personal remembrance of Norm Mineta, the most distinguished of my own mentors, and a note on the documentary An American Story: Norman Mineta and His Legacy .
CURRENT FILMS
- Compartment No. 6 is the best new film in theaters now, but hard to find. It’s an insightful and unpredictable dual character study set on a train ride to Murmansk. In theaters.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once In theaters.
- The Automat: nickels in, memories out. In theaters.
Here’s a final reminder from me that Oscar winners CODA, Drive My Car and Belfast are all now available to stream.
ON VIDEO
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- Strawberry Mansion very trippy and ultimately sweet fable. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Oscar Micheaux: Superhero of Black Filmmaking: a pioneer worth knowing about. HBO Max.
- Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: captivating docufiction. Amazon (included with Prime), YouTube.
- Buy Me a Gun: children in the narcolypse. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
