All articles by David Kempler

Filipino transvestites and Hasidim makes for odd but only so-so entertainment.

Nicholas Cage felt compelled to remake The Wicker Man. Why?

A young Mexican girl in Los Angeles experiences a rite of passage with the expected bumps in the road.

Ed Norton as sorcerer or magician or both, is unable to levitate this period piece a notch above the ordinary.

Seniors attempt to frolic in their planned community.

A family is off in search of a beauty contest victory for their youngest member and it’s a trip you don’t want to miss.

Promising Georgian writer/director Géla Babluani takes us into the darkness of men’s souls.

Meryl Streep sharpens her fangs and talons and slices up the fashion industry.

The electric car is dead and the energy here won’t be enough to revive it.

The Fiedler family is locked in a mortal battle of who can throw the most sickeningly ostentatious bar mitzvah and everyone loses.