Monthly Archives: March 2022

One of the toughest decisions facing anybody involved with a movie is recognizing “Well, Hell, somebody beat us to it” and knowing when to throw in the towel. The Keke Palmer enslaved woman’s revenge thriller “Alice” went into production as … Continue reading →

Here’s the novel touch to “Rescued by Ruby,” an utterly adorable hero dog tale based on a true story. Director Katt Shea and her team include outtakes of the gorgeous rescue border collie mix “Bear” who has the title role … Continue reading →

The chases are pulse-pounding and the fights and shoot-outs — in streets and bars, hotel suites and inside a BMW SUV — are visceral, almost epic. Just don’t let the fact that the Korean body-switch thriller “Spiritwalker” is confusing on … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Movie Nation:
In the late spring of 1951, John Ford and his repertory company decamped from Monument Valley and Hollywood and took passage — paid for by B-Western house Republic Pictures — to The Old Country, the…

Ahh, the quaint corruption, criminality and coercion of the Nixon era, now just the second most evil Republican administration in living memory. Julia Roberts plays the mouthy Steel Magnolia Martha Mitchell, who played a major role in exposing the unsavory … Continue reading →

The 31st Florida Film Festival announced its lineup tonight — ten days, some 160 films, filmmaker panels, parties, many venues, many movies, much much fun, as always. After losing a year to the pandemic and coming back in an altered, … Continue reading →

An April 15 tax day fright — that’s when Shudder streams the movie about an “ancient evil” in…”The Cellar.”

In the thriller “Tethered,” a little blind boy is raised by his parents to live self-sufficient and alone in the woods, keeping himself tied, by rope, to the home he makes his way back to each day after checking his … Continue reading →

No, I get no kickbacks from posting this. No sample bottles to make me give up Bombay Sapphire. Dammit. But the ads are cute.

British filmmaker Adrian Lyne made a name for himself in the ’80s and ’90s thanks to lurid thrillers (“Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Lolita”) that put the “sexually” in “sexually-charged” and “sexual taboo.” He didn’t make a lot of movies, but … Continue reading →