Monthly Archives: May 2021

As “Saw” movies go, “Spiral,” the latest film “from the Book of Saw,” isn’t one of the worst in the never-ending franchise. It’s not one of the best, either. This thriller sits on the gory edge of the blade, teetering … Continue reading →

What fresh nonsense is this? Well, “fresh” is maybe a tad generous. “Undercover Punch and Gun” is a jokey Hong Kong action pic with first-person shooter video game gunfights, martials arts mayhem, terrific stunts and some pretty damned funny one-liners. … Continue reading →

“Dark Forest” is a German police procedural that is less about tracking down a serial killer than about the ripple effects of random, senseless violence and the pain of not-knowing what’s happened to a loved one who simply vanishes. There’s … Continue reading →

A Welsh cattle and pig farm evolved over the decades to become the world’s first “residential recording studio” in the late 1960s. Musicians could go there, isolate, create and live under the same roof — almost dormitory style — as … Continue reading →

When is a surprise twist no surprise at all? When the movie starts to make no sense without that inevitability, that’s when. “Antidote” opens with an unexplained hanging and leaps straight into a woman (Ashlynne Yennie) rising from her bed … Continue reading →

July 30, this one hits theaters.

A problematic play became a troubled film shoot and then a box office bomb when Tennessee Williams, Sidney Lumet, Brando and United Artists took a shot at “Orpheus Descending,” the play that became “The Fugitive Kind” back in 1960. It’s … Continue reading →

Reforming the fast, loose, pocket stuffing elders of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has proven to be nigh on impossible over the decades. The terrible ratings of the 2021 pandemic Gloves should have made this a no brainer. They have … Continue reading →

Tom Hardy’s back in what has proven to be an unlikely franchise seeing as how the original wasn’t much fun, not in the same darkly comical league with “Deadpool,” wasn’t deep enough to be as dark as it turned out. … Continue reading →

This doc, about the Tulsa Race Riot/Massacre, comes out this June — 100 years after scores of people were killed, hundreds were injured and thousands detained — on National Geographic and Hulu, right around Juneteenth. A compelling subject, and this … Continue reading →