Monthly Archives: February 2022

Well, at least they kept “the cute.” Some of it, anyway. The sequel to the glib and engaging “Tall Girl,” telling of the trials and tribulations of a towering beauty at her Louisiana high school settled on a theme — … Continue reading →

Recognize him? “High Fidelity” and “Peaky Blinders,” and he was Obama in “The Comey Rule” on TV. He was Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami.” Can he sing? Play guitar? Look great in dreads? Deadline.com broke the story, which … Continue reading →

A phrase that become a Twitter trend during the Trump Era pops to mind when watching “Within the Whirlwind” and recalling what the Russians under Stalin did to their own people to placate the paranoia of a megalomaniac. “The cruelty’s … Continue reading →

Some movies are slow. Some manage a kind of languid torpor. And there’s “Help,” which might be described as “inert.” It’s a disastrously undramatic debut feature from writer-director and bit “character” in the film Blake Ridder, who is also distributing … Continue reading →

A blind teen, a hunter stumbled into, a creature hunting them. March 18.

There aren’t a lot of music clubs that have made the journey from “THE place to be” to “an Institution” with more grace than Ronnie Scott’s, the Frith Street landmark in Soho, London. “Ronnie’s” is a gloriously musical celebration of … Continue reading →

“The Privilege” is a too-predictable German mashup of a couple of horror genres and several paranoid thrillers, all underscored by the big idea in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” Hey kids, your elders are taking away your future, and not just … Continue reading →

The movies tend to oversimplify the countless crimes committed against Europe by Nazi Germany. That label “Nazi” has become screen shorthand for “We don’t need to know how or why, that alone explains it.” In “Calm at Sea,” German filmmaker … Continue reading →

Not every Reynolds outing has to be funny, snarky, violent and in the “Deadpool” vein. This one co-stars Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana, a time travel tale about a visit from your space traveling future self. Aside from … Continue reading →

When you set your romance against the most aesthetically pleasing watersport of them all — kite surfing — you’d better make sure the melodramatic story is fun, tortured, twisty and/or steamy enough to keep folks from wondering, “When’re they going … Continue reading →