Monthly Archives: December 2021

It’s hard to recall any movie that rings as hollow and false as “This is the Night.” But then, my memory isn’t what it once was. That’s not to say that this growing up Italian on Staten Island, “Coming of … Continue reading →

A tip of the hat and a hearty “Nice try” to writer-director Sean Nichols Lynch for his vampire comedy, “Red Snow.” It’s a straight-up B-movie all the way, with decent makeup and blood-sucker contact lenses and a few cute holidays-and-vampires … Continue reading →

Antonio Banderas also stars in this high gloss B picture, about pieces of eight and galleons and not about Captain Jack Sparrow coveting such treasure. For once. Holland and his stunt crew get to do a lot of Peter Parker … Continue reading →

One of the epic star vehicles of Ava Gardner‘s career earned a nice restoration a couple of years back. So if nothing else, Ava at her peak in glorious Technicolor should be lure enough to draw one to “Pandora and … Continue reading →

You read the plot description in that headline, and you see promise in the premise. So you figure “Why not watch one more Christmas movie,” right? What can go wrong with rounding up fractious family and having it out over … Continue reading →

Follows his “Bill & Ted” sequel, nicely timed to cash in on whatever comes of “Matrix Resurrections,” mixed to negative reviews be damned. That’s part of the Hollywood agent’s credo. Announce your star’s NEXT film before this one hits…or bombs.

Sinister, stark and shadowy, the new “Macbeth” conjured up by Oscar-winning writer and director Joel Coen, and starring his Oscar-winning wife Frances McDormand with Oscar-winner Denzel Washington in the title role, has the cast and production values to compete with … Continue reading →

This may be the last thing I see in a theater this year. It’s not just that I’ve gotten around to everything and I do mean EVERYthing else. There is a title missing here and there I wouldn’t mind reviewing. … Continue reading →

You can have your zombie pictures — real zombies or Rob Zombie splatterfests. Spare me your “Saw” sequels and “Halloween” abattoirs. Entirely too neat and “pat” for my tastes. For film violence to mean anything, it’s got to be personal, … Continue reading →

It returns to life as a lark, a self-aware send-up of “The Matrix” as the pop culture-devouring entity it once was. “The Matrix Resurrections” opens at a video gameworks where employees, led by a master designer, are “going to make … Continue reading →