Monthly Archives: July 2016

Those “Ab Fab” Brits, Edina and Patsy, are back — decades past their TV glory, more decades beyond their expiration dates in “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.” If it can be drunk, smoked or snorted, they consume it. Because even at … Continue reading →

You don’t realize how much a good horror movie depends on acting until you stumble in that rare one whose cast actually gets it right. We need to believe that the people up there on the screen  are shocked at … Continue reading →

OK, so the headier speculation about the rebooted “Ghostbusters” has created dashed hopes. It won’t hit $50 million at the box office on its opening weekend, despite advance ticket sales that suggested it might. It won’t really challenge a somewhat … Continue reading →

This weekend’s box office should revolve around a second round of “The Secret Life of Pets.” It got decent enough reviews (I was in the minority not caring for it, but not in the TINY minority). It’s packed them in … Continue reading →

So let’s read some polls — the Metacritic and Tomatometer ones — read some tea-leaves and read between the lines about what people are saying about this weekend’s potential blockbusters. After that first trailer came out, the talk about “Ghostbusters” … Continue reading →

The new “Ghostbusters” is just different enough from the old “Ghost Busters” to be worth the trouble. Flipping the gender of the cast makes for an appreciably different take on the material, and the effects are 30 years bigger and … Continue reading →

We know there’s this dust-up between George Takei, the original Sulu, and screenwriter/actor Simon Pegg, who outed the new Sulu in the new film. Zachary “Mr. Spock” Quinto, out and proud, has weighed in.  We know that Justin Lin, whose … Continue reading →

I sit in a theater, an audience of one for “Our Kind of Traitor,” and I ponder something producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald said about Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson when “The Island” came out back in 2005. They aren’t … Continue reading →

Fame came late, and after some rather severe life-tests, for Bryan Cranston. So one can’t blame him for trying to make up for lost time in terms of figuring out what star vehicles to attempt on the big screen. But … Continue reading →

The telling take on “The Secret Life of Pets” will be what it does its second weekend. But as for openers? It’s a big hit — $95 million plus. “Finding Dory” is finally displaced as the top draw, but it … Continue reading →