Monthly Archives: June 2022

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.

Riding high on the download and play charts, thanks to “Stranger Things.” Some of us remember her first American appearance, which was…astonishing. Beguiling. Enthralling. Songs with drama performed dramatically by a beautiful mop topped Brit. She was absurdly young when … Continue reading →

In California wine country, they have to take climate change seriously, and competition just as seriously. Want to set yourself apart from from the pack? Brand yourself as having a greener footprint and even more “organic” approach to wine-making. Want … Continue reading →

There’s something to be said for quitting while you’re ahead. I’m not talking about the filmmakers/paranormalists who returned to the “haunted” house in Florence, Mississippi after making “The House in Between” about their investigations into a striking, modernish A-frame where … Continue reading →

For “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” writer, director and star Cooper Raiff conjures up an idealized version of “the perfect big brother,” his character’s best possible self. Andrew is romantic, smart, witty, at home in his own skin and damned mature … Continue reading →

“Trees of Peace” is about four women, holed up in a basement, trying to survive the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, four strangers trapped in a single room, with little light, food or water for days that stretch to weeks and … Continue reading →

A hundred years of poetry, art and pop culture have painted over the hard and lonesome work of the cowboy. The reality, we’re often reminded, isn’t John Wayne/Marlboro Man romantic. It’s just another dirty. solitary job that most people wouldn’t … Continue reading →