Monthly Archives: June 2022

At the age of 74, Canadian poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen started a world tour — his band in matching fedora, with backup singers, many of whom had been with him for years and with a seemingly endless and boundless … Continue reading →

So many things go awry or are just never quite right with the film adaptation of “Attack on Finland” that one scarcely knows where to begin. But begin one must, so here goes. “Good villains make good thrillers,” Hitchcock said. … Continue reading →

The mad-bomber thriller “Hot Seat” gives you a moment — here and there — where you’re allowed at least the hope that this will amount to something — an action beat that works, a plot twist you don’t expect, a … Continue reading →

Cameron Diaz made her last film — “Annie” — in 2014, and officially said she was retired && married, new child, etc. — in 2018. Now Jamie Foxx and Netflix have lured her back in front of the cameras. She … Continue reading →

This isn’t the 1940s British play of the same title, although am characters name, Inspector Stoddard, hints at perhaps its inspiration. It stars Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan and Adrien Brody about is about time cast of an about to film … Continue reading →

Flying to Bali for their daughter’s wedding. To break it up. Cute. Kind of madcap. Ish. Trying WAY too hard. Apt use of Three Dog Night singing a Randy Newman tune. Look for this one Oct. 21, because you know … Continue reading →

Victimhood is a scab that should never be picked, because the last thing the martyred want is for a wound to heal. And there it is. You bathe in the proverbs and aphorisms of John Michael McDonagh long enough, he’s … Continue reading →

The French invented the “menage a trois,” so leave it to them to conjure up a particularly messy one that looks at love from “Both Sides of the Blade.” Titled “Avec amour et acharnement” in French, and first-titled “Fire” in … Continue reading →

Here’s a film that exposes the sketchy scam that is Major League Eating, and that July 4 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and the power drunk mini Vince McMahon who runs it for what they are. It’s funny and goofy … Continue reading →

In a large, repurposed open floor-plan warehouse in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, a man in baseball cap and sweater vest exhorts his charges, a sea of high school kids whose uniforms are often augmented with college sweatshirts. But the shirts — … Continue reading →