Monthly Archives: November 2021

Wherever film satire has traveled in the past half century, there’s something seriously retrograde in Rada Jude’s film festival darling “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.” I wracked my memory banks while watching it, trying to summon up a film … Continue reading →

In a film era when too many filmmakers figure computer animation is the only way to make “Clifford” come to life, when “101 Digital Dalmatians” seems cheaper, when the only way to get Harrison Ford cto work with a dog … Continue reading →

I don’t know, the pushback Kidman is getting over her turn as the “off camera” Lucille Ball in this biopic seems to miss the point. Whatever her film career was before marriage and TV made her and her husband famous, … Continue reading →

Jesse Metcalf , Chad Michael Murray (and was that Shannon Doherty?) star in this Dec. 17 release.

Maybe your first thought when People Magazine named Paul Rudd its “Sexiest Man Alive,” was “Say what?” OK. Maybe it was your second thought, after “People’s still around? And doing the ‘sexiest man’ thing?” The reason, thanks to “recency bias,” … Continue reading →

The title — “Love Hard” — is a mashup of “Die Hard” and “Love Actually,” clashing visions visions of “the Best Christmas Movie Ever.” And truthfully, this piffle doesn’t get much deeper or funnier than that. It’s a Hallmark Channel … Continue reading →

A film of consequence and warning, Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” takes us back to the beginning of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland and lets us see them through the eyes of a little boy. A very personal story equal parts pathos … Continue reading →

“Blonde. Purple” is a heist tale/hostage thriller with vague pretenses of Tarantino or Guy Ritchie and little of the style, panache, wit or adrenalin of either of them at their worst. The odd moment of acting heat dissipates in a … Continue reading →

They all go Hugh Jackman, eventually. And @vancityreynolds never sees it coming.