Monthly Archives: May 2021

The tropes of the big screen boxing drama were basically chiseled in stone in the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s, set up and recycled — with some variations — by “The Champ” and “Golden Boy” and “Body and Soul,” … Continue reading →

IFC has this horrific laugher, on its way to you this June 25.

June 1, this “out there” slasher farce makes its public bow. Wow.

I don’t recognize the listed distributors, but this cast in an action pic? It’ll make it our way.

Suki Waterhouse, a deep-voice/zero-range “model/actress” plays the “new girl” at a “Seance” obsessed boarding school in this week’s classmate killer horror thriller. While her look, voice and name are distinctive, I don’t recall her standing out in “The Broken Hearts … Continue reading →

Algar, of “Wrath of Man” and “The Last Right,” is Ireland’s cinematic flavor of the moment and takes the spotlight in this horror mystery opening June 11.

“You were always quiet,” the old flame says of the big city cop who’s come home for a funeral.” “You always saw everything.” That’s Eric Bana’s character in “The Dry,” a solid and engrossing police procedural from Down Under. He … Continue reading →

His name is Pineapple Tangaroa, and his resume mentions Austin, Texas, sometime actor (“Puncture,” Song to Song”), “entrepreneur” and — implied — “local character.” His face is one big tattoo, punctured by piercings that turn him into a walking visual … Continue reading →

Teaser trailer, summer release. Eye popping.

This 2016 locals “share our stories” film makes it to video on June 8.