Monthly Archives: April 2022

June 10, you will believe dinosaurs like snow!

Turning the dark children’s fantasy “The Little Mermaid” into science fiction seems kind of pointless, but as they say in Japan, “Anime’s gonna anime.” The Japanese WIT studio works primarily in TV. But when Warner Brothers Animation gets a commission … Continue reading →

Boy, if Disney really wants to get Wuhan Ron’s “Don’t Say Gay” Goat, they should buy him a subscription to Hulu. With “Crush,” Hulu serves up the gayest gay vulgarian heroine in a gay fantasia of a high school ever…since … Continue reading →

There’s a lot of good stuff to chew on in this Hollywood Reporter take on Netflix hitting the wall, this time from a content quality and quantity point of view. They greenlit an insane number of series and movies, threw … Continue reading →

Seems like a week doesn’t go by when somebody isn’t serving up a fresh batch of New Orleans music and New Orleans musicians in documentary form. So for everybody who missed the earlier takes, and who can’t wait for the … Continue reading →

Jerrod Carmichael — who also directed — and Christopher Abbott have had enough and a suicide pact is their plan B. Can Tiffany Haddish, Henry Winkler or JB Smoove talk them out of it? Do any of them even want … Continue reading →

Think of the thriller “Silverton Siege” as a South African “Dog Day Afternoon” — a hostage situation, a bank surrounded and a tense stand-off with potent political implications. Director Mandla Dube and a superb cast deliver a tight and tense … Continue reading →

A real-time (ish?) thriller from a GoPro POV, this tale of terror takes us on a night Annie Hardy, the young lady whose streaming gimmick is “bandcar,” will never forget. This Blumhouse release, from the Brit who gave us that … Continue reading →

Our big screen tough guys are fading into the shadows, right before our eyes. A generation of them are either hanging it up or descending into C-movies to pad their estates as their years of kicking ass and tearing off … Continue reading →

Let’s face it. PBS is never going to produce an “American Masters” documentary on The Grateful Dead. But personal essays like “Box of Rain,” movies about the fan experience, the phenomenon of the “family” — their tribal, migrant fanbase — … Continue reading →