Daily Archives: October 10, 2020

Netflixable? Malay (comic) Mayhem “All Because of You”

So, what can we learn about Malaysia from today’s “Around the World with Netflix” offering, the action comedy “All Because of You?” For an Islamic country with laws against homosexuality, their cinema isn’t above making sissy jokes. That part of … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Critic as artist/influencer, “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael”

She was the wittiest of professional contrarians, breathlessly passionate about each new love, venomously vituperative about each offense to her cinematic sensibilities. Pauline Kael was film criticism’s original “hanging judge,” the critic’s critic in a pre-Internet age when there were … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Olivia M., Dax and Josh Duhamel star in “BUDDY GAMES”

Think a Sandler-esque “Tag” with lots of swearing.

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