Monthly Archives: December 2017

A lot of us grew up with the Disney cartoon about the bull who didn’t want to fight. He lived to just smell the flowers, and no mere matador could provoke him to do otherwise. If you missed it, here’s … Continue reading →

Jeff Goldblum shows up and chases Bryce Dallas “The Dull Redhead” Howard and Chris “Wisecracker” Pratt right off the screen in this trailer that gives, well, we’re assuming, the whole movie away. “Fallen Kingdom” opens June 22 and will make … Continue reading →

Dakota Fanning plays our heroine, a San Fran Cinnebon seller whose rigidly scheduled life includes dreaming and typing up spectacular “Star Trek” adventures, which she then wants to enter in a “Script a New ‘Star Trek’” contest. Alice Eve plays … Continue reading →

Rosamund Pike is finding the best way for a beautiful actress to get Hollywood to take her seriously is to be bad — violently so. Daniel Bruhl was born to play a Baader Meinhoff Gang-era German “revolutionary” and terrorist. And … Continue reading →

It takes a while to settle into the the rhythms, the language and languid, lurid Old South melodramatics of “Mudbound,” a Sundance darling turned Netflix “event.” For the better part of an hour, it’s fair to scratch your head over … Continue reading →

We’re getting to that time of year when awards are piling up to make a sufficient guess at where the “critical” consensus is regarding the best pictures of 2017. Critics don’t pick the Oscars, or the Golden Globes, for that … Continue reading →

David Huggins is a trained artist of the primitivist/impressionist school who has but one subject — himself…and his lifetime of encounters with aliens. He’s particularly concerned with the conjugal visits, meetings that he insists were sexual in nature, and illustrates … Continue reading →

Pixar’s “Coco” gave the Disney division cause to celebrate again today, after a week of John Lasseter sexual harassment bad news. Not only is it a big (not huge, just big) box office hit. But the stage has been set … Continue reading →

Our heroes figure the central fact of their lives out long after we, the audience, do. Their epiphany comes at the tail end of a 27 minute prologue, that part of the film that unfolds before the title “Sundowners” flashes … Continue reading →

OK, so I’m a little late getting to this one. VERY late then, sure. But I meant to see it when it had a short run at the regional art cinema. Just never got around to it. So that counts, … Continue reading →