Monthly Archives: February 2022

The gloriously human “CODA” comes back to theaters nationwide the weekend of Feb. 25-27, Apple announced today. In Orlando, this moving, funny, Oscar nominated coming of age as the hearing daughter of deaf parents tale will be the star attraction … Continue reading →

“Love and Leashes” is the K-pop of BDSM comedies. It’s cute (ish), innocuous and so sexless as to seem neutered, in case you wondered how movie about bondage, leather and sado-masochistic “release” could garner a TV-14 rating. A demure Korean … Continue reading →

The signs are all there — aggressive, hair-trigger-tempered creep comes on entirely too strong with women, bullies his friends. He demonstrates that rape is most definitely a crime of violence, the victim “falls” and the fact that she survives that … Continue reading →

It’s a redemption story about a mug with dreams of stardom, who calls for a Catholic woman…and decided to become a priest? This is what we call “The Big Mistake Theory.” You make a big enough mistake (Charles Colson, et … Continue reading →

This looks scruffy and DIY and oh so lowbrow. March 22.

Kiefer Sutherland is their recruiter, Ben Foster and Pine are Army guys put out to pasture with bills to pay. They’re “contractors,” the euphemism for “mercenaries.” Looks tense. And with Pine announced as leading another “Star Trek” installment onto the … Continue reading →

“Strawberry Mansion” is a quirky, cheap DIY-looking sci-fi parable about a future when dreams are being taxed, and some villainous successor to Google or Facebook has figured out a way to inject “product placement” into those dreams. It takes place … Continue reading →

It can seem that there have been as many film versions of “Cyrano de Bergerac” as there are stage productions of Edmond Rostand’s timeless romance. I can remember animated ones and bloody ones, witty ones and Cyranos set in high … Continue reading →

I dare say YouTube had a hand in greenlighting and titling this potentially cute and heartwarming tale, the movie Channing Tatum got to make when Marvel turned him down, to hear him tell it. What’s huge on YouTube? Dog videos. … Continue reading →

Tony, monied, upscale and posh Winter Park is the high rent district/suburb of Orlando. I lived here for several years before moving to the coast. Winter Park, being monied and almost Biblically prideful, designed itself a library and adjacent events … Continue reading →