Monthly Archives: April 2022

Although I can’t go all-in on “Choose or Die,” I will say that there’s a lot to be said for a horror movie with clever twists, a top flight cast and a witty consistency to its conceit. A vintage game … Continue reading →

A satire of interconnected vignettes — sketches — tied together in a loopy, bloody-minded State of France farce of a story, “Bloody Oranges” won’t be to most tastes. Discerning its meaning and what the filmmaker and his uninhibited, Comedie Francaise-spangled … Continue reading →

“Room 203” is not the first “haunted room” thriller. This Japanese game company-produced adaptation of a Nanami Kamon novel isn’t set in a hotel as in “Room 237” in “The Shining,” or “1408” in the adaptation of a Stephen King … Continue reading →

Cruz is a famous “critic’s darling” filmmaker readying a new project, Banderas and Oscar Martinez as actors willing to go through some things to be in it. This looks pretty funny and is coming our way in June, from IFC.

Viggo, Seydoux and K-Stew. June. A real grabber tease of a trailer, I must say.

Griego is a Buenos Aires TV producer running his legs off the keep his long-running confrontational reality show, “Hoy se arregla el mundo” on the air. He’s forever putting out fires, jetting abroad to sell his shows to other South … Continue reading →

You can’t blame his fans for praying for a new film, premiering secretly at Cannes. Nobody wants him to bow out with “Inland Empire” as his last big screen credit.

Perhaps America’s greatest annual music festival celebrated its 50th installment a couple of years back, and promptly went on hiatus for two years, thanks to COVID. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival came back this year, and hot on … Continue reading →

Caught this trailer before a showing of something the other night, the latest from the writer-director of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” Lovely. Neon has it, of course.

How do you screw up Shakespeare’s hilariously malleable feuding couple farce “Taming of the Shrew?” If you’re the Polish team behind their cleverly-retitled modern setting of the tale, you put all your efforts into a stupidly complicated story and a … Continue reading →