Another week, another round of celebrity pantomimes, this time a biopic prime for Amazon, not theatres. Lucy (Nicole Kidman) loved logic, a trait that clearly did not find a home in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s final cut. The pampered superstar couldn’t find a washing machine in a Maytag showroom. What would …
No sooner does a full-color drone’s-eye-view offer up a glimpse of Belfast today, than we’re whisked over a fence and 50 years into a monochromatic past. For a city beset by civil war, it’s amazing how squeaky clean the streets look, as if set designers spent their evenings polishing each …
Leave it to Paul Verhoeven (Turkish Delight, Basic Instinct) to set an erotic thriller inside a convent. Don’t let the bird poop and fart jokes that open the picture throw you. It’s his way of distracting audiences from the corporeal abominations that await. Verhoeven’s role in this fact-based 17th Century …
Expect another masterful essay on regretfullness when Terence Davies (The Neon Bible, The Deep Blue Sea) turns back time for a biographical study of war poet Siegfried Sassoon, played at various ages by Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi.
There is no such thing as a bad genre, just filmmakers quick to yolk science fiction with horror before proceeding to add an appreciable amount of gore that covers for their innate inability to tell a story without the special effects vital to keeping impressionable minds coming back for more. …
The drive-by shooting that opened the picture felt out of place, particularly in light of the campy irreverence that quickly followed. Relax. It was just director Jun Lana’s successful attempt to throw the audience off guard before taking us on a wild ride through the life of Dharna (Christian Bables), …
Prior to watching Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the singer meant little more to me than the girl with the Prestone antifreeze-tinged locks whose name frequently appeared on TMZ. The same way people now have the capability to shoot a movie on a phone, Eilish and her brother/producer/performer …
Prior to watching Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the singer meant little more to me than the girl with the Prestone antifreeze-tinged locks whose name frequently appeared on TMZ. The same way people now have the capability to shoot a movie on a phone, Eilish and her brother/producer/performer …
In his first turn as a full-blown villain, Ethan Hawke stars as “The Grabber,” a serial killer whose plans are diverted when his latest kidnap victim, 13-year-old Finney (Mason Thames), begins receiving calls from the disconnected phone in his dank basement accomodations from five previous fatalities offering advice on how …
In many ways, this is the best James Bond picture since Daniel Craig assumed the role. Imagine two sibling 007s for the price of one: Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and her little sister (a feisty, pug-nosed Florence Pugh). The act of leaving home to find a home among superhero freaks …
Each generation has a defining high school basketball picture to call its own (One on One, Love and Basketball, Above the Rim, etc.). The dialogue may coarsen, the off-court violence intensify, and the ethnicity of its lead may fluctuate over time, but the events outlined in the narrative basically remain …
Apart from Frank Tashlin’s The First Time (it’s narrated by a fetus), talking baby movies are not my bag. Adding to the aggravation, this joins Spirit Untamed as the second film from Dreamworks Animation in as many months to base a sequel on a small screen counterfeit and not the …
Apart from Frank Tashlin’s The First Time (it’s narrated by a fetus), talking baby movies are not my bag. Adding to the aggravation, this joins Spirit Untamed as the second film from Dreamworks Animation in as many months to base a sequel on a small screen counterfeit and not the …
To save time from running the title through Wikipedia, the cadejo are a pair of magical creatures along the lines of Oz’s good witch/bad witch sisters. The only reason Bea (Pamela Martinez) invited older sister Sarita (Karen Martinez) to the club that evening was so that grandma would let her …