Monthly Archives: June 2014

　You’re pretty much going to have to see “22 Jump Street” twice — just to catch all the jokes the roars of laughter make you miss.No kidding, when this buddy cop parody hits its sweet spots — bromance gags carried … Continue reading →

“The Human Race” is one of those “don’t get too attached to anybody” horror pictures, a lower-than-low budget variation of every race/chase/pick’em off, one-by-one horror tale since Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre and Agatha Christie perfected it. But for … Continue reading →

“Unsustainable” has become our watchword for a bubble about to burst, a system — financial, climatological or health care — on the brink of collapse.The experts in “Ivory Tower” use it, with varying degrees of alarm, to describe the state … Continue reading →

Rare is the end-of-life melodrama that doesn’t traffic in “Disease of the Week/Weeper of the Week” cliches. “Lullaby” certainly does. But this terminal illness tale rises above the form, mainly thanks to a stellar cast and a refusal to drift … Continue reading →

Something about the label “Hellion” implies a sense of impish fun and mischief. But 13 year-old Jacob Wilson (Josh Wiggins) sets fires, trashes vehicles in the parking lot while his fellow Texans enjoy a high school football game and has … Continue reading →

Imagine a Pedro Almodovar horror comedy.There’d be violence and cross-dressing, graphic discussion of exotic sexual practices and homo-eroticism. Gender politics would take center stage.It would have witches, naturally. And Carmen Maura would play their queen. “Witching and Bitching” is a … Continue reading →

How hard can it be to get “A Coffee in Berlin”? Damned near impossible, it turns out. Niko (Tom Schilling) is a baby-faced lad of about 20, has no luck finding a cup. And in this winning, dry and hip … Continue reading →

　 Small, remote town pulls every trick in the book to land itself a much-needed town doctor. The locals are always colorful and quirky, the new doc, a Big Medicine cynic. Maybe he’s a New Yorker, as he was on … Continue reading →

MIAMI BEACH — Canadians are easy to spot in Florida. Guys like Jay Baruchel don’t have to open their mouths and drop an “a-boat” or “I’ve never BEAN here before” to give away the game. They’re pink. “I’m like a … Continue reading →

By day, Donna Stern works in Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books sin Brooklyn. By night, the cute 28 year-old has a few drinks — and a few more — and gets up on stage at her favorite dive and does stand-up.It’s … Continue reading →