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| Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 |
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Gandhi: The Power of The Powerless |
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[Available Jan. 27 on various VOD platforms.] Striking cinematography highlights Ramesh Sharma's powerful, informative, inspirational, moving, thought-provoking, 106-minute, 2021 documentary that focuses on visionary Mahatma Gandhi's influential philosophy and teaching of nonviolence worldwide that inspired many civil rights and grassroots movements and leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. in the U.S. and Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and its positive impact on social justice and political change and consists of archival black-and-white photographs and film clips, and candid commentary by civil rights activists Rev. James Lawson and Rev. Jesse Jackson, congressman John Lewis, Nobel Laureate and spiritual leader HH The Dalai Lama, grandson and peace activist Arun Gandhi, U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.'s son Martin Luther King III, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy, author and political scientist prof. Mary Elizabeth King, The Year That Changed the World author Ramachandra Guha, authors and historians Patrick French and prof. Timothy Garton Ash, scholar and former Sabarmati Ashram director Dr. Tridip Suhrud, philosopher and nonviolence advocate Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Mandela: His Essential Life author Lord Peter Hain, former Poland President Lech Wa??sa, scholar and Civic Forum Founder Jan Urban, Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter Ela Gandhi, Robben Island prison guard Christo Brand, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom author Anant Singh, Gandhi grandson and biographer Rajmohan Gandhi, playwright and dissident Václav Havel, singer and human rights activist Jaroslav Hutka, and voiceovers by Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.
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Islands |
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[Opens Jan. 30 in theaters.] When an aimless, alcoholic, drug-imbibing >/b> ennis pro turned coach (Sam Riley) at a seaside resort in the Canary Islands plays tour guide to a British couple (Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing), who are trying to have another baby), and their 7-year-old son (Dylan Torrell) by showing them around the island, including visiting a camel farm owned by two friends (Ahmed Boulane and Fatima Adoum), in Jan-Ole Gerster's compelling, well-acted, twist-filled, thought-provoking, mysterious, unpredictable, 121-minute noir thriller, he finds himself thinking he has met the actress before, and when the heavy-drinking husband suddenly disappears from a nightclub, the no-nonsense police inspector (Ramiro Blas) and local cop (Pep Ambròs) begin to suspect foul play.
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Worldbreaker |
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[Opens Jan. 30 in theaters.] While her skilled mother (Milla Jovovich) is away fighting vile, monstrous insect-like creatures that have invaded the earth in Brad Anderson's engaging, tension-filled, action-packed, violent, sci-fi, 95-minute thriller with gorgeous cinematography and scenery, a determined teenage girl (Billie Boullet) is trained by her sword-wielding, storytelling father (Luke Evans) how to fight the monsters and to kill them by decapitation as they survive together on an idyllic island.
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Choral, The |
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R 2026 |
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[Opens Jan. 16 in theaters.] Wonderful cinematography highlights Nicholas Hytner's engaging, entertaining, poignant, heartfelt, well-acted, touching, 113-minute film that beautifully captures the spirit of a wartime community in which a British choral society in Yorkshire, England, in 1916 hires a strict, gay, atheist, initially questionable choral master (Ralph Fiennes) to audition an eclectic, resilient group of singers (Emily Fairn, Jacob Dudman, Amara Okereke, Roger Allam, et al.) and to conduct The Dream of Gerontius opera by Edward Elgar (Simon Russell Beale) along with under arrest pianist (Robert Emms) amidst the backdrop of WWI.
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Murder Between Friends |
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[Available Jan. 13 on various VOD platforms.] When a guest (Hana Vagnerová) at the sprawling English countryside estate of a well-known television star (Joanne Collins), who specializes in solving crimes, is murdered and found in a jacuzzi hot tub in Jacob Young and Trent Garrett's entertaining, red-herring-dotted, quirky, twist-filled, whodunnit, 84-minute thriller, the remaining five college friends (Nadia Bjorlin, Toby-Alexander Smith, Jacob Young, Trent Garrett, and India Thain), who all have a motive for murder, try to determine who did it along with the wacky chef (Jim Bostelmann) and the gamekeeper (Espen Hatleskog).
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