Monthly Archives: May 2022

Everyone’s viewing tolerance is different. Everyone has a different limit, how long she or he or we will sit through a streaming series, waiting for something — ANYthing — interesting to happen. I got three hours into the new Amazon … Continue reading →

Well, nobody’s done a genie movie in forever. And this trailer? That’s some serious eye candy.

The “Money Shot,” and that’s really the only way to describe it, in the WWII bomber drama “The War Lover” gives us something no other Steve McQueen movie dared to show. In the first B-17 mission depicted in the film, … Continue reading →

Every now and then as we travel “Around the World With Netflix,” one gets the idea that the streaming service is impacting global cinema in ways that aren’t the healthiest. Watching formulaic romantic comedies from Peru, Italy, Brazil, Germany and … Continue reading →

A tipsy drive in the North African desert, an accident and.. recriminations. McDonagh did “Calvary” and “The Guard” and is nobody’s idea of “the lesser McDonagh brother, even if his sibling did “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Evangelos Odysseus Papathanassiou was born in Greece, sought pop stardom in Paris before his mastery of synthesizers got the attention of major film studios. As Vangelis, he scored “The Bounty,” “Blade Runner,” “1492,” “Alexander” and this film, whose opening is … Continue reading →

There are so many film and TV versions of Ip Man, the legendary Hong Kong martial arts guru who taught Bruce Lee, that it’s pointless to try and keep track of them all. So let’s not even try. Life was … Continue reading →

A gay Rom Com about inventing a “fake boyfriend” on social media to help poor Andrew finally leave a toxic lover behind, only to have the “fake” become a social media sensation? Sounds about right. Looks cute, and it beats … Continue reading →

Looks intense. Funny thing about “There Are No Saints.” I went to IMDb to look up the spelling of the leading man, and Shannon Sossaman. And the title isn’t listed. Not as a Schrader film, not as an acting gig … Continue reading →

You’d be hard-pressed to think of a darker or more delicate subject for a “dark comedy” than a double-suicide. “On the Count of Three,” the debut feature of comic turned comic actor/director Jerrod Carmichael manages to pull that off. It’s … Continue reading →