“Fall Is a Good Time to Die.” / “Sharp Corner.” / “My Home Unknown.” / “Roving Woman.”

“Fall Is a Good Time to Die” (2025, Pluto TV) drama. A young ranch hand hunts justice for his sister through the vast landscape of South Dakota. As he wrestles with what he is about to do, he crosses paths with a local county sheriff coming to terms with what she has already done.



       This little movie aims to be noirish, obviously. But it simply chugged into tired, redundant, and unimaginative waste. Joe Hiatt is Cody, the confused young man, but his lazy effort only drove the indie into uninteresting farce. Jennifer Pierce Mathus as the sheriff is fine but with a dead-end script and bankrupt direction by Dalton Coffee, she has nowhere to go. 🎥💻📽


“Sharp Corner” (2024, Hulu) thriller based on the 2012 short story by Russell Wangersky. Josh, a family man, becomes obsessed with saving car accident victims at the sharp road corner near his home.



       A very perplexing subject or psychological puzzle. With the usually remarkable Ben Foster as Josh, I expected a truly engaging ride. But director Jason Buxton's direction of his otherwise intriguing script evolved into sleepiness. A boring experience. 🎥💻📽


“My Home Unknown” (2023, Tubi) drama. Premise: Mina, experiences homelessness and is forced to battle through a spiraling journey of mental illness to find Home. Lost between fragments of her harsh realities, Mina finds a way to accept help in the end with hopes to start a new life.



       This indie, written and directed and starring Yaz Canli, tackles a current scourge. Mental disorder among the growing homeless population in the U.S. 

       But Ms Canli failed to deliver dramatic focus due to the annoying redundancy of her espousals of grief. Nothing that Yaz said or showed us is new. Sadly, the movie offers no navigable terrain to explore. 🎥💻📽


<>“Roving Woman” (2022, Tubi) drama. Sara, kicked out from home, steals a car, falls in love with its owner and decides to find him. 



       Written by Lena Gora and Michal Chmielewski and directed by Mr Chmielewski, this little movie seemed slow and repetitive 3/4th of the way--until the last sequence.

        Ms Gora is Sara, and I must say, she is good, given a flimsy script. John Hawkes’ appearance in the movie's latter part sort of saved the entire effort. 🎥💻📽

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