Monthly Archives: April 2022

“Mothering Sunday” is a somber, sad tale of the gutting emptiness of loss, the unspoken-of absences of everyone who died in The Great War as remembered by an adult writer who saw this all first hand during her years “in … Continue reading →

“Night Moves” is one of those ’70s to early ’80s Hollywood noirs you channel surf by, get a taste of and say “I need to come back and catch this bad boy from the beginning.” It’s got Gene Hackman, stepping … Continue reading →

“These are grownup issues,” the big, bad Big Energy dude tells the 12 year-old Dutch girl. He mutters something about her “arrogance” and childish, limited world of the world. But this lying Dutchman doesn’t know Nova (Kika van de Vijver) … Continue reading →

He’s the teaser advert video revealing the theme, the vibe and the ’70s music (of course) that makes it “Guardians” branded. C’mon. You’ve gotta visit Disney World before Governor Il Douche shuts it down.

Fresh out of college, I used to conduct and produce interviews for public radio stations. And one thing one quickly picks up on from such a job is an instinctual skepticism when chatting up say, the head of MUFON, the … Continue reading →

An American Japanophile’s deep dive into the Tokyo underworld becomes an entertaining and intriguing mob mystery in “Tokyo Vice,” a new series on HBO Max starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi. It’s immersive and engrossing, if more conventional … Continue reading →

The review embargo for this HBO Max series about an American reporter covering the Japanese mob for a Japanese newspaper is Monday afternoon. But before one writes the review of Ansel Elgort’s series set in the Japanese underworld, one must … Continue reading →

A Cold War drama set in a Czechoslovakian seminary just after the Russo-Warsaw Pact invasion of the country is today’s DVD dropoff. “Servants” is, of course, a good one, a winner from our friends at Film Movement MovieNation, spreading fine … Continue reading →

Try to forget Neil Maskell’s turn as a young Winston Churchill on TV’s “Peaky Blinders.” Put Winston out of your mind. As “Bull,” every time the hulking Maskell enters a room people look alarmed. Shocked even. And nobody’s ever glad … Continue reading →

Sometimes, you keep adding photos to top of a review just to avoid having to write it. Because I’ve been a fan of Judd Apatow, and I just knew his turn towards indulgent, overlong, nepotism-laced “comedies” in recent years wasn’t … Continue reading →