Couture (2025)

Jolie keeps ‘Couture’ from coming apart at seams      Three women, each separated by a decade and all frighteningly alone. That’s the setup for Alice Winocour’s rambling “Couture,” a well-meaning attempt at stitching together lives in turmoil during Paris Fashion Week. Some of it works. Most of it doesn’t.     What makes it worth watching […]

Lucky Strike (2026)

War is hell for lone-surving soldier in ‘Lucky Strike’       Vietnam had marijuana, but the drug of choice during World War II was cigarettes, most notably Lucky Strikes, a welcome staple in a G.I.’s ration kit. Not only did they calm frayed nerves, but they also were a dead giveaway of American-born German soldiers attempting […]

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man

Music legends sing praises of icon in ‘Peter Asher’      I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to live in a world without Peter Asher, the multifaceted redheaded Brit who made icons out of James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and Carole King while winning two Grammys as Producer of the Year and enjoying his […]