Rose Island (2020) • View trailer3.5 stars. Rated TV-14, for considerable profanityBy Derrick BangTruth really is stranger than fiction. In 1967 — annoyed by the ponderous Italian bureaucracy involved with any sort of construction...
Four stars. Rated PG-13, for dramatic intensityJames Cagney came out of a 20-year retirement, for his final great role in 1981’s Ragtime. Audrey Hepburn returned from semi-retirement after 1967’s Wait Until Dark, for...
Under the Riccione Sun (2020) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated TV-MA, for profanity, drug use and fleeting nudity By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.7.20 Since it’s not possible to enjoy anything...
Nobody Knows I'm Here (2020) • View trailer Four stars. Rated TV-MA, for mild dramatic intensity By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.17.20 Chilean director/co-scripter Gaspar Antillo’s impressive first feature — debuting on...
The Farewell (2019) • View trailer Three stars. Rated PG, for no particular reasonBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 7.26.19 Is there such a thing as a “good” lie? Or are they merely...
