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Daily Archives: April 6, 2022
Movie Review: Sex, and maybe love follows in “Paris, 13th District”
They label the neighborhoods of Paris “arrondissements,” which translates as bureaucratic “districts” but in French sounds ever-so-sexy. Whatever one thinks of Notting Hill, Hyde Park, Buckhead, Park Slope or Silverlake, the allure of romance in this or that arrondissement checkmates … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A True Tale of WWII Trickery — “Operation Mincemeat”
John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love,” “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”) directs Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly MacDonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs in this story of a spy game played with a corpse meant to fool Gerry into thinking … Continue reading
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Movie Review: More Zombies in Oz — “Wyrmwood: Apocalypse”
Top tip here. One should never dip into a “Wyrmwood” zombie film around meal time — yours, or theirs. “Wyrmwood: Apocalypse,” the sequel to 2014’s “Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead,” is a “Zombieland” meets “Soylent Green” blood-on-the-lens splatterfest. It’s probably … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Closeted Cop, a Romanian Reckoning – – “Poppy Field”
Cristi’s out of town visitor Hadi is a German-Turkish flight attendant so handsome that he can’t wait to get him to his apartment. The elevator will do. But when his sister drops by, she chides her brother for not taking … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Michael Bay’s wild and wooly “Ambulance” ride
“Ambulance” is 80 minutes of pure mayhem wallowing through 140-150 minutes of pure Michael Bay hokum. The action sequences are assaultive, brutally-efficient exercises in gunplay, stunts and frenetic acting passing by in a blur as breathless as the editing team … Continue reading
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