Monthly Archives: April 2022

This is the first honest-to-Pete B- or C movie I’ve seen Butler in since his “Olympus Has Fallen” late leading man career bump. He’s not getting along with “the wife,” the wife disappears, “The Vanishing” style, at a convenience store. … Continue reading →

An unconventional sex comedy about a newly widowed woman who hires a sex worker, and their love or lust connection. June 17, Emma T. reminds Kenneth B. what he misses.

Don’t let the bad pun in the title scare you off the wine country mystery “Brut Force.” Writer-director Eve Symington’s debut feature is a solid, engrossing film noir set in California’s pinot noir terroir. It’s the sort of smart, simply-shot, … Continue reading →

There’s an optimism in every DisneyNature release, each timed to fall on Earth Day. No matter how embattled, threatened or tested nature is by a human race unwilling to switch off their SUV engine while we sit watching cat videos … Continue reading →

They were the first all-female rock band to put out an album on a major label, a fixture on concert tours, opening for Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and others, and a “novelty act” mainstay of TV musical variety shows of … Continue reading →

A period piece for Christina R, this one opens in early May.

A mobster on the lam turns life coach for an introverted Italian comic book nerd in “The Turning Point (La svolta),” an Italian mob dramedy with a hard, bloody edge. Riccardo Antonaroli’s film, based on a Roberto Cimpanelli/Gabriele Scarfone script, … Continue reading →

As beaten, shot, torched, blown-up and hacked to death as the zombie picture is, Uruguayan Gustavo Hernández finds a way to give us something that at least feels fresh in the genre. “Virus-32” or “Virus :32” is as pitiless as … Continue reading →

For the first two and a half acts of “Night Drive,” director Vysakh, his screenwriter Abhilash Pillai and cast treat us to a modestly-affecting thriller about a Christmas Eve drive gone wrong. There’s little action and lots of melodrama as … Continue reading →

It’s French, of course. And Polish. With a little English. Bertrand Mandico’s “After Blue” drops on June 3.