Monthly Archives: December 2018

Film fans long ago made up their minds about Sally Field. The woman spent the better part of 20 years living down her “You like me…right now you like me” Academy Award acceptance speech, a meme before we were using … Continue reading →

Well, it’s something to see. Producer (and co-screenwriter) Peter Jackson always makes sure of that. The surprising thing about the film of Phillip Reeve’s “Mortal Engines,” essentially a movie about roving, bulldozing cities that devour small towns, is how long this … Continue reading →

  You had to go and do it, didn’t ya? Burn through ol’Deadpool’s pool of goodwill with a joke taken too far, a shameless money-grab for the holidays. The trailers were the highlight of “Once Upon a Deadpool,” a “Princess Bride” … Continue reading →

It’s a conundrum faced on many a political talking heads show. How do you fight Islamic extremism without violence? How do you have a debate about a faith whose adherents have historically used it for violence (not that they were … Continue reading →

We hold these critical truths to be self-evident, and we hold them close to the heart. That every Ben Foster performance has value, and by extension, every film he makes is worth chewing over. That Elle Fanning has few peers … Continue reading →

A militia nut movie with an edge. James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Chris Mulkey, Happy Anderson and Robert Aramayo star in “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” which is getting VOD release Jan. 19.

Pretty promising genre picture,  from J.C. Chandor and screenwriter (“Zero Dark Thirty”) Mark Boal. They filmed “Triple Frontier” in Colombia, and spared no expense in who they hired for the job. This is a fictional variation on that long-planned Mark … Continue reading →

“He’s not like us.” You don’t say. The frights from the scary kid this rural couple “found” come our way Memorial Day, when “Brightburn” reaches theaters.   

Rarely has an actor’s “baggage” served him better in a role than Willem Dafoe’s has in bringing Vincent Van Gogh to the screen in “At Eternity’s Gate.” Soulful and wounded, testy and potentially dangerous — those are the hallmarks of … Continue reading →

  Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to look. And no, Sony Animation should not have let “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” out its doors and onto big screens in this blurred, jerky, pixelated condition. No kidding, six minutes into it, I … Continue reading →