Monthly Archives: December 2018

  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 →

A few Awards contenders take bigger tentative steps into the box office wars on this ffrst weekend in Dec., traditionally a slow weekend dominated by the Big Thanksgiving hits. “Ralph Breaks the Internet” has dominated the past few weekends, but … Continue reading →

“Spider-Man” is, like all comic book characters, a natural for animation. Here’s Sony spending some real big screen money on a “Spider-Man” cartoon that does what Sony NON-animation hasn’t done, as yet — cast an African-American actor as the web … Continue reading →

A little stark. Tony Stark. One last time. A bleak “Avengers” for bleak times. And our only hope is Paul Rudd? April 26.

The parties, the rush, the Rush Parties — so much alcohol, so many hazing rituals. What would college life be without fraternities and their hellish homoerotic hazing? “College guys, amIright?” Jan. 11, college gets…HORRIFIC with “Pledge.”  

Josh Lucas and Topher Grace are the big names in this Fox release. But Chrissy Metz is the star, a mother whose son ignores the “Don’t do anything stupid” foreshadowing and falls through an ice-covered lake. It’s a true story … Continue reading →

  We all have trouble managing that post-“Time to join AARP” card in the mail transition. The problem is magnified if you’re a  brand name action star. “Aging gracefully” is rarely in the (AARP) cards. At 72, no amount of … Continue reading →

Dame Judi, Sir Ian… I do believe I am taking the vapors. “All is True” looks like a 2019 release that no Bard fan, casual or hardcore, will want to miss. Branagh has never looked more like Ian Anderson of … Continue reading →

The Oscars-Golden Globes correlation isn’t what it used to be. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences spent decades trying to break the “Globes predict and thus make superfluous the Oscars” stranglehold, and they pretty much have succeeded. But … Continue reading →

“The Favourite” is a Monty Python sketch without the cross dressing. A daft and broad historic farce played out over two hours, it is sumptuous in its period detail, bawdy and rude and laugh-out-loud funny in its sexualized, slapstick riff … Continue reading →