Monthly Archives: March 2020

This one looks interesting and novel in approach. Pops out March 17, and I will be reviewing it shortly.  

You don’t have to be drunk to appreciate the no-budget charms of “Jurassic Thunder.” Strike that. Being drunk is pretty much a prerequisite for watching this models and DIY effects student film, streaming now. Not a “student film?” My bad, … Continue reading →

Got to put that “Onward” outing in the rear view mirror, and quick. But, as Seinfeld puts it, What is the DEAL with Pixar’s obsession with DEATH?

  There’s an opinion, common in certain film fan communities on the Internet, that carries the belief that kids’ movies are too treacly, inoffensive and mild-mannered for the little darlings’ own good. I don’t necessarily think they’re wrong. Children are … Continue reading →

There’s something inherently tone-deaf in a gory satire cooked up by Hollywood “elites” mocking liberal “elites” hunting “deplorables” for sport. Maybe the film schooled screenwriters of “The Hunt” have a firm grasp of liberal tropes — the ones Fox News … Continue reading →

    Juno Temple delivers a dazzling turn as an aspiring singer/songwriter struggling to protect and look out for the schizophrenic producer who “discovered” her in “Lost Transmissions.” As Hannah, she turns manic with fear over what could become of … Continue reading →

The image is stark and iconic — a lone house, fenced, construction site devastation all around it — a single man resisting the march of  “progress.” But there’s no vast supply of balloons to lift Stacey Ryan’s trailer “Up” and … Continue reading →

An inspirational Christian music romance runs into the limitations common to the faith-based genre in “I Still Believe,” a bland tear-jerker that lacks the drama or commitment to wholly come off. This true story of singer-songwriter Jeremy Camp’s “love of … Continue reading →

This offers two great ones a tour de force. Dern has been dazzlingninbhis

Just a couple of days ago the evolutionary biologist and religion-debunking gadfly Richard Dawkins, whom I follow on Twitter, tweeted the hopeful thought that some British personage making a statement the world was taking seriously heralded “the return of the … Continue reading →