Monthly Archives: June 2022

Interview enough actors or read enough actors’ autobiographies and you’ll run across what has to be their most common pet peeve. It’s a stage direction that everybody who steps onto a set and into the frame seems to hate. “OK, … Continue reading →

A shy young podcaster immerses herself in her local indie music scene as a way of finding herself and getting noticed in “Poser,” a mesmerizing immersion in music, a “scene” and the obsessions of a member of the “Hey everyone, … Continue reading →

This movie, set during the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbass, seems to explain why Russian officers have limited shelf lives while on their “special operation, invading, murdering and raping their way across Ukraine. July 1, from Well Go … Continue reading →

“Brian and Charles” is a “bloke builds a robot” comedy that’s so cute you want to pinch its inanimate cheeks until they’re red. A mockumentary that pays homage to British tinkering, Welsh eccentrics and the lesson Dad always taught you … Continue reading →

Well here’s a pleasant surprise. “Gatlopp” might be a supernatural board game comedy plainly inspired by “Jumanji,” with the players trapped “in” this supernatural game until it finishes and they face up to their “issues.” But the script has flashes … Continue reading →

One of the definitions of a “classic” film is one that should never, ever be remade. Forget what Coppola said about movies being like operas, with new generations of artists taking their shot at interpreting classic texts. He’d be the … Continue reading →

Jonathan Rhys Meyers in a “Single White Female” thriller set in Latvia? Yeah, I could buy that. The guy cultivates an “Oh, I’m capable of things” vibe, and that’s put to good use in “The Good Neighbor,” a Stephan Rick … Continue reading →

Census workers and closed borders, an America that frets over what these newcomers are dreaming of. Looks weird. I like weird.

It took “Toy Story 4” to prove to Disney and Pixar that maybe they should’ve let the trilogy end on a glorious high note, rather than milking it for one extra movie. But here is “Lightyear,” a spin-off adventure that … Continue reading →

A bank heist, “a case” snatched from a safe deposit box, a “stick to the plan” edict and a brutal, old-fashioned double-cross is the can’t-miss formula for the umpteenth thriller to be titled “Blowback.” Cam Gigandet, Randy Couture and Louis … Continue reading →