Monthly Archives: July 2019

Let us focus, on this day of its death, on the good Movie Pass did, not on its unsustainable business model. Theater chains came up with their own discount mass consumption of movies model. Young people got back in the … Continue reading →

Much has changed in the decades since the French Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand first cast a satiric eye on Western Civilization, especially its North American practitioners, in chatty, thoughtful films such as “The Decline of the American Empire,” “Jesus of … Continue reading →

For decades, four words invoking his name so inspired fear in the hearts of public figures that they became a cultural punchline. “Mike Wallace is Here.” The famous and the infamous were said to dread the thought of defending themselves, … Continue reading →

Don’t recognize any of the faces in this conceptual comedy. It comes our way (VOD, etc.) July 30.

From the moment they meet, Stu the Uber driver in “Stuber” is a smart-ass. Doesn’t matter that he’s a Pakistani-American pushover driving a Nissan Leaf in the evenings for extra cash, and his new passenger is a roided-up, tattoo covered … Continue reading →

Yeah? And? This has been where things are going for a few years, but the death spiral has been interrupted repeatedly by this or that trend or genre that suddenly exploded in popularity Maybe the death will be sudden, but … Continue reading →

Craig sounds like he’s goofing on Pierce Brosnan in this trailer for the Thanksgiving comedy. Christopher Plummer and Lakeith Stanfield are also on board.

Michael Ealy stars in this remake, which is coming out later this summer. It’s a reinvention of the story that Bruce Joel Rubin told, with Tim Robbiins and Danny Aiello and others back in 1990. I interviewed Rubin when the … Continue reading →

    Operatic in tone, a love poem that’s “Howl” raw in scope and despair, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” is a deadpan elegy to a city, its ever-shifting populace, family lore and the weight of the past. … Continue reading →

Whatever the quality of this Fox farce, they’ve done a helluva job selling it. Kumail and Dave, a “Throwback” exploitation style trailer this time, and it’s “Early reviews be damned. I am DOWN for this.” Those early reviews have been … Continue reading →