Monthly Archives: March 2022

It’s good to see JA found Jesus and cleaned up his potty mouth. And stopped casting relatives. April Fool’s…is when this comes to Netflix. Looks like he’s hoping to get a little Brit drollery into this farce about making a … Continue reading →

If writer/director/producer/cinematographer/editor and composer Adrian Langley can’t make sense of his muddled thriller “Ash & Dust,” what hope do we mere mortal viewers have? I mean, kudos for wearing all those hats at once, chief. But all those extra voices … Continue reading →

A tragic accident of war is remembered in the quiet and wrenching Danish World War II drama, “The Bombardment,” a film about the day the RAF came to destroy Copenhagen’s Gestapo headquarters and hit a nearby school as well. Titled, … Continue reading →

Pedro Pascal plays the rich dude who hires Nicolas Cage to come hang, Tiffany Haddish and her bud Ike Barinholtz are CIA agents who need Nic Cage’s help, and Neil Patrick Harris is his agent in this potentially hilarious self … Continue reading →

Somewhere on the dystopian Road to Nowhere — Destination Thunderdome –a drifter stumbles across a giant nugget and must battle the desert, snakes, scorpions and wild dogs, interlopers and his sketchy partner to hang onto his hunk of “Gold.” That’s … Continue reading →

A “different” sort of marriage, with rampant cheating and murder. Lil Rel Howery and Tracy Letts also star in this Mar. 18 Prime Video release.

Encounters with real-life survivors of the Holocaust can be wrenchingly emotional. The stories of suffering and travail, the grim resignation of starvation and sudden, brutal death all around you, the soul-searing realization of the inhumanity of humanity can turn even … Continue reading →

There’s no horror movie that’s ever been made that wouldn’t benefit from a proper blood-curdling scream, delivered at the right moment by a character under life-threatening distress. Screen veteran Melora Walters of “Dead Poet’s Society,” “Beneath the Leaves,” “Big Love” … Continue reading →

There are more than a few laughs in the coming-of-age dramedy “The Invisible Thread,” about a teen coming to terms with himself and his life with “my two dads.” This Italian “Around the World with Netflix” outing (in Italian, or … Continue reading →

This minimalist, mostly wordless depiction of a milk cow’s life, with human analogies as we see the world from two females’ point of view, has endless buzz, an April 8 release date and almost no awards season attention. “Cow” is … Continue reading →