Monthly Archives: July 2018

I think I’ve posted one trailer for this one already, the movie about the bums’ rush Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice and Powell gave America and the world in their rush to turn a Saudi/Pakistani-Afghan-enabled attack on America as an excuse to invade Iraq. … Continue reading →

Yeah, it’s a daft-looking all-star film fantasy spinoff of the tale that inspired the Holiday Ballet that You Must See Because it’s Good For You. Keira and Dame Helen. And Morgan Freeman. Awk-WARD.

“Ant Man,” the popcorn shrimp of summer popcorn pictures, becomes “Ant Man and The Wasp” as a sequel — twice the super-heroes in the title, less than half the laughs and thrills. It’s the most underwhelming of the year’s endless … Continue reading →

Matt Dillon is the kindly doctor who takes in the mixed-race orphan (Ryan Potter) who pines for the pretty blonde (Olivia Ritchie) at the plantation down the road in this (August 17 release) drama. Jim Caviezel plays a tippling physician … Continue reading →

A healthy evening opening across America for “The First Purge” comprised about $2.5 million in ticket sales, per Deadline.com.  It might manage $30 million or so on its opening half-week and weekend. “Ant-Man and The Wasp” is set for yet … Continue reading →

Jay-Z and Paramount put together this limited docu-series, about the South Florida teen whose family visit to Sanford, FL ended in tragedy and infamy. A 2012 case and it still resonates. July 30 on BET (per Gizmodo media) and Paramount … Continue reading →

He finds her in the tub, waiting to die. She doesn’t. “Why do you like me?”  Daisy (Jordan Hinson, who scripted the film) asks. “Because you’re young and rich and beautiful and you haven’t called the cops” is really the … Continue reading →

This small-distributor horror film/thriller was picked up at Sundance and earns a limited release Aug. 10. Kind of “It” without the supernatural element, without every adult clueless to the threat. Promising.  “All serial killers live next door to somebody.”

A government bent on keeping the existence of and possible threats posed by “UFOs,” and the film presence of sci-fi fave Gillian Anderson made me wonder if this new movie was inspired by the 1970s British TV series about a … Continue reading →

A couple of years back, I reviewed an Idris Elba thriller, a high-toned B-movie called “The Take.” One thing that surprised me was him singing the song that runs under the closing credits. Is there nothing Idris can’t do? I … Continue reading →