Monthly Archives: June 2022

A British widow of a certain age raids her savings and screws up her courage to hire a sex worker in “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a dramedy that goes down easy thanks to the sexy-droll presence of Oscar … Continue reading →

This is how it’s done. “Dirty Daddy: The Bob Saget Tribute” is exactly the sort of send-off beloved comics deserve and have earned from us. “Dirty Daddy” was thrown together shortly after the guy Chris Rock labeled “‘America’s Dad’… that’s … Continue reading →

Clara takes in the world with all her senses, peering into the minutia of life, feeling the sun and the breeze, smelling the ground and listening to the wind and everything it brushes past. She’s may be mentally still a … Continue reading →

A fourteen year-old German girl experiences her first crush and her sexual awakening in “Cocoon.” But to shy, observant Nora’s surprise, that crush and first love is an older teen girl. Writer-director Leonie Krippendorff — who created the lesbian romance … Continue reading →

“Don” is one of those Bollywood musicals that reminds us that too much Indian cinema puts the “in” in “inane.” A self-congratulatory story of a writer-director — Cibi Chakravarthi — bullied into attending engineering school instead of “art school” (film … Continue reading →

Americans are conditioned to wait for that moment when an onscreen brawl crosses over into “to the death” territory. Some gangster or cop will pull out a firearm. You’ll have a long wait for that in “Paid in Blood,” a … Continue reading →

This will help struggling multiplexes in the cinema’s late summer graveyard weeks, so it’s not all bad. But the cynicism of Sony releasing a longer cut of this just-left-theaters release so soon underscores what some movies — the comic book … Continue reading →

Thomas Haden Church most often finds his laughs via characters with a laid back, deadpan view of the world, characters that drive the highly strung folks around him nuts. And there’s comedy gold in the laid back guy finally losing … Continue reading →

Well, he’s no Jason Momoa. DJ should try a few more bad guys on for size, not that we expect “Black Adam” (Oct.) to be all “dark side.”

This sequel to “The Witch: Subversion,” about a lab, a massacre, a real mess, opens Friday. Well Go Entertainment had it, and you know we never go far wrong with them.