Monthly Archives: July 2018

Got to love the pun in the title. And are there two more intense actors working today than Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon? “The Current War” is about the war between Edison and Westinghouse, between AC and DC. With Nicholas … Continue reading →

You only get to sweep us off our feet once, and expecting to do it again is just…greedy. Where the guiding light in the original musical, “Mamma Mia!,” was the disco-era delights of Abba, the sequel “Mamma Mia! Here We … Continue reading →

Matt Smith? OK. Natalie Dormer? Flip your hair, dear, so we know it’s you. Meowwwwwrrrrr. The desperate search for that first infected zombie (so as to affect a cure) leads to Stanley T. Thank heavens. Looks fun, even if it … Continue reading →

A silent girl , Romina, is debriefed by police (in Spanish, with English subtitles) for purposes of criminal and psychological evaluation. Something happened last June on Crystal Lake. Wait, Crystal Lake? Isn’t that where Jason Voorhees carried out hockey-masked mayhem … Continue reading →

Another November release with the cast and zeitgeist-grabbing subject matter to be an Oscar contender, “Boy Erased” features Osacr winners Russell Crowe as a Southern preacher, Nicole Kidman as the preacher’s wife and Oscar nominee Lucas Hedges as the son … Continue reading →

Andrew Solomon grew up a child with “weird hangups,” dressing in costumes, “obsessed” with the more morbid poems of Emily Dickinson, and with tragic opera. His affluent parents indulged all of his idiosyncrasies, right up to the day he came … Continue reading →

Oh Freddie, you had me at “Roger, there’s only room in this band for one hysterical queen.” Uncanny impersonation/performance by Rami Malek and the ensemble (Ben Hardy is drummer Roger Taylor, Gwilym Lee is guitar virtuoso Brian May, Joseph Mazzello is bassist John Deacon). delightful … Continue reading →

Netflix’s ongoing outreach movie audiences the theatrical release studios have abandoned includes making movies for filmgoers who by and large just don’t go to the movies any more. Thus, “Our Souls at Night,” a reunion of 80something former “Barefoot in … Continue reading →

A Christmas present for fans of Ms. Jones and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a bio-drama about what made her reputation long before she became the most beloved Supreme Court Justice by the left. Oscar bait? One can only hope.  

Desperation, as a general rule, makes for good comedy. For a “caper comedy,” it’s an absolute pre-requisite. “Deidra & Laney Rob a Train” is fraught with desperation, real and comic. Deidra (Ashleigh Murray of TV’s “Riverdale”) has it. She’s pretty … Continue reading →