‘The Green Knight’ is a devilish and honorable game

“The Green Knight” (2021) – Truth or Dare.  It’s a devilish game.  Sometimes, the player faces a no-win circumstance because each choice will cause detrimental angst.  Reveal a long-held crush when the said person sits – right there – across the living room, or pour two ounces of Tabasco in a wine glass and gulp it down.  Yikes.  Perhaps, look to Joshua from “War Games” (1983) for advice when dealing with such alternatives. “The only winning move is not to play.” In writer/director David Lowery’s film – based on “Sir…

‘A Ghost Story’ does not scare, but it deeply haunts

“A Ghost Story” – “Enjoy life.  There’s plenty of time to be dead.” – Hans Christian Anderson Although writer/director David Lowery’s new film contains one arguably scary moment – in which several dishes fly around an ordinary kitchen – ironically, “A Ghost Story” is not a horror film.  Not at all. Instead, it best resembles a 1-hour 32-minute lesson:  to embrace, savor and enjoy the time that we have on this planet…while we are alive.  Heaven forbid if one carries significant, unfinished business at the time of death, because the…