Daily Archives: June 26, 2022

Next Screening? “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” the decline of…air travel?

Who doesn’t love a little gibberish from the cockpit? July 1, Steve Carell gets upstaged…again.

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BOX OFFICE: And the winner is? “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On?”

A24’s little stop-motion animated movie based on the viral videos voiced by Jenny Slate and filmed by her ex-husband only opened in six theaters. And yet “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” pulled in $169k on this six (mostly New … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Satanism finds a home at “H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House”

The acting is underwhelming, the sound is tinny and off-mike and the script isn’t the least bit subtle about shoving exploitive nudity and lesbian sex into the lurid Lovecraft thriller, “H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House.” So, amateurish? Hell yes. But the … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Say ‘allo to my gorging lil’friends — “ScarfFace”

You glance at the poster or the DVD cover for “ScarfFace” and you figure “Ah, a new edition to the DePalma/Pacino Cuban gangster epic” is out. “Say ‘allo to my leetle friend” and all that. And then you see the … Continue reading

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