Top Posts & Pages
- Netflixable? Taiwanese mother considers whether to "Reclaim" the life she's given up for others
- Movie Review: A "Big" styled body switch from Lail to Keaton -- "Mack & Rita"
- Movie Review: Gemma Arterton falls for the "Rogue Agent" -- or does she?
- Netflixable? A tragedy of WWII recreated, "The Bombardment (Skyggen i mit øje)"
- Movie Review: Replacing your own septic? Plan on "Digging to Death"
- That weird Golden Oldie tucked into "The Gray Man" -- "Silver Bird"
- Movie Review: Kids find Superhero Dad's "Secret Headquarters"
- "Top Gun: Maverick" comes back to the biggest IMAX (and mini max) screens this weekend
- Movie Review: Arranged marriage? Get through that first Pandemic date, which lasts "7 Days"
- Movie Review: Ron Howard's "Thirteen Lives" celebrates 5,000 heroes
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Preview: “Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)”
Another “cute” hitman comedy, this one about a suicidal lad (Aneurin Barnard), despondent failed writer, all that, who tries and tries to off himself. And fails at that, too. Well then, nothing for it but to hire Tom Wilkinson, “a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview: “Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)”
Preview, Netflix’s capture of “Springsteen on Broadway”
Dec. 16, Netflix premieres its recording of a “Springsteen on Broadway” performance — a storyteller, sans band, up close and personal. Scripted? Of course. But it looks like the best way to get the poet without the bombast.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview, Netflix’s capture of “Springsteen on Broadway”
Documentary Review: “I Am Paul Walker”
I watched the “I Am Paul Walker” retrospective documentary when it aired on Paramount Network last summer, and neglected to take notes and review it. It felt incomplete. But now the 90 minute version of this brisk, 120 minute (including … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Review: “I Am Paul Walker”
Documentary Review: Film shows us the “Invisible Hands” of child labor
Take a nice long drag on your imported or domestic brand cigarette. Savor that last morsel of chocolate. And try not to make too much noise with the marvelously hand-crafted, shockingly cheap bracelets that grace discount stores and flea … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Review: Film shows us the “Invisible Hands” of child labor
Preview, Disney and Kenneth Branagh gorge on the eye candy for August’s “Artemis Fowl”
An eight book series about a tweenage criminal mastermind, with fairies and dwarves and goblins and pixies and theft and death and bio bombs? “Artemis Fowl” was always bound for the big screen. But with the production company accounts drowning … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview, Disney and Kenneth Branagh gorge on the eye candy for August’s “Artemis Fowl”
Movie Review — “Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer” joins the X-Mas Also-Rans
Make an animated Christmas tale for kids and the world will beat a path to your door. But for every “Christmas Carol,” every “Arthur Christmas” or “Polar Express,” there are a hundred also-rans. Even starring Mickey Mouse in “Mickey’s Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review — “Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer” joins the X-Mas Also-Rans
Movie Review: “Blood Brother”
You know those thrillers where the bad guys talks a lot? Too much? Like, constantly? Hate those. And that’s what “Blood Brother” is. That’s Jack Kesy’s character, the psychopathic ex-con Jake, in a nutshell — once a “blood brother” to … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: “Blood Brother”
Next Screening: “Mary Poppins Returns”
The first trailer was sort of a “Hmmm, could it work?” But the latest one suggests “Why not?” So we’ll go into “Mary Poppins Returns” with that in our hearts. We will. Emily Blunt tries to make us forget Julia … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Next Screening: “Mary Poppins Returns”
Documentary Review: “People’s Republic of Desire”
The Exotic East rarely seems more exotic than in the first 30 minutes or so of “People’s Republic of Desire,” a new documentary about online life in China built around the Chinese obsession with live streaming “hostesses” and “hosts.” It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Review: “People’s Republic of Desire”
Documentary Review — “Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain”
Alex Winter‘s “Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain” is the best 85 minute primer you will ever get on Bitcoin, its many imitators and the potentially world-changing technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. As Winter’s legion of expert witnesses explain, this … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Review — “Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain”