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The Martha's Vineyard Times One film about endlessness, and another about growing old 1 of 2 Playing online at the M.V. Film Center are two films, “About Endlessness” and “Duty Free.” (The latter is also playing live at the Film Center.) “About Endlessness” is by Swedish director Roy Andersson. Don’t expect a conventional narrative from this remarkable film. “About Endlessness” consists of a series of vignettes, often divided by blackouts. Some are connected, some are not. The film begins with a stunning and lovely scene of a couple embracing while they float abo...

Photo: DAVID DEVLIN/NETFLIX © 2021 It’s finally May. The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, and the full brunt of the Summer movie season is primed to descend upon us like a mighty avalanche of cinema. There are a ton of new films premiering exclusively in theaters this month, including this weekend’s Wrath of Man (which won’t be on demand), as the country continues to vaccinate and multiplexes reopen with varying safety standards. Still, there are plenty of great new movies premiering via streaming and day-one premiere services, too. This week, there’s Monster, based on Walter...

What to watch: Catch up on ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ or start the new Star Wars series ‘The Bad Batch’ Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Wondering what to watch this week? Check out these film and TV recommendations. “About Endlessness” Ah, the merry month of May — perfect for Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s latest and perhaps final musings on what it means to live, suffer, endure. And it’s a comedy! Bone-dry, 76 minutes in length, it comprises meticulous vignettes ranging from young women dancing outside a roadside café to Hitler cowering in his bunker to a pri...

Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman once described Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson as a “slapstick Ingmar Bergman,” which is as apt a designation as any. Both artists lay bare the plights of anguished souls in existential crisis, but Andersson’s view of the prosaic absurdity of the human condition is often tempered with humor that almost, but not quite, softens the blow. Black humor, perhaps, but I prefer playwright Eugène Ionesco’s term “tragic farce.” Andersson’s films – About Endlessness marks his fourth feature in two decades – are not conventional narratives. They�...

Fort Worth Weekly The Paper Tigers (PG-13) This martial-arts comedy is about three middle-aged former kung fu prodigies (Alain Uy, Ron Yuan, and Mykel Shannon Jenkins) who are forced to revive their talents to solve the murder of their master. Also with Yuji Okumoto, Jae Suh Park, Roger Yuan, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Yoshi Sudarso, and Matthew Page. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Image courtesy of YouTube.com OPENING   Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction for the murder of a federal agent stars Jack Huston as an FBI man who has an illicit affair with hi...