Monthly Archives: July 2019

Quite the summer and fall for Mr. Brad Pitt. Tarantino and sci fi. Quite the one two punch. Sept. 20.

Husband and wife Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara star in “Bottom of the Ninth,” a “second chance” romance that get swallowed by the generic and generally dull baseball story it’s wrapped in. Manganiello plays a ballplayer sent to prison for … Continue reading →

The leader of the “Keep America White” Nordic Social Club can curse and bully with the best of them. But it’s when he (Bill Camp) dials it down to a whisper that the real menace kicks in. “I still own … Continue reading →

Netflix has a mixed bag on action pics, and that problem extends to the trailers they tend to cut for them. This one doesn’t really sell this “true story” — and you can feel they’re leaving something out — lots … Continue reading →

This tiny bit of BH Tilt raised the hairs on the back of my neck once or two. A favored niece kidnapped and murdered, a call, from the past? From that niece in the future? “Wrinkle in Time” heroine Storm … Continue reading →

The words come out in different sentences, but bullies never hear them. “There will be consequences,” ineffectual authority always says. But when that warning isn’t backed up with action — meeting violence with the full force of the law, or … Continue reading →

It’s a well-established fact that I will watch and get something out of any picture that’s set “on the road,” and any movie set anywhere that stars Jean Reno. That ethos isn’t given too severe a test by “4L,” (“4 … Continue reading →

Has a vague, rural “Nightwatch” feel to it, the smell of “vampires” to its story of a serial abductor and murderer. It opens in Russia first, Direct TV in August and theatrical in that dead zone before fall films begin … Continue reading →

It was controversial when it first popped up on the streaming service. And while I can’t recall be lin any copycats, the very disturbimg and graphic suicide scene that was the climax to the first season of “13 Reasons Why” … Continue reading →

America’s cult of swindlers pyramid schemers and hustlers meet in their Mecca, Orlando and environs, in this Showtime series, premiering Aug. 25. A natural move for Kirsten Dunst.