You can immediately see why Jason Momoa not only signed up to play the lead in the action-revenge thriller “Sweet Girl” but also executive-produced it.  It’s a sprawling, bruising, sometimes convoluted, often emotionally exhausting drama with action sequences stitched into it. It’s about a man trying to get revenge for his wife’s death from cancer at the…

Billie Piper’s directorial debut “Rare Beasts” calls itself “an unhinged romantic comedy,” and it’s not an exaggeration. I can’t make heads or tails of this bleak black comedy about a single mom dating a borderline incel coworker who craves the status of marriage but seems to hate women and wants none of the work involved…

Spike Lee’s documentary series “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½” is so timely you’d think HBO had some kind of crystal ball that guided their release date. The acclaimed director looks at the Coronavirus pandemic and the tragedy of 9/11 through the filter of the greatest city in the world, New York City. A series of four 2-hour…

Billie Piper is a jack of all creative trades. She released her first single “Because We Want To” at the age of 15, becoming the youngest female singer with a #1 on the UK Singles Chart. A feat she matched with her second single “Girlfriend” in 1998. After two successful albums, she pivoted to acting,…

John Frankenheimer’s “Seconds” will linger a lot longer than the title suggests in the mind of anyone who chooses to watch it. In fact, it might be one of the most haunting American films to come out of the 1960s, or any decade for that matter. James Wong Howe’s expressionistic cinematography plays a huge part…

The always great Rebecca Hall anchors the effective “The Night House,” an old-fashioned ghost story that reveals unimaginable truths after a shocking loss. Owing more to films like “Carnival of Souls” and “The Innocents” than most recent genre fare, it’s a very impressive mood generator, the kind of movie that wants you to be unsettled…