Monthly Archives: June 2022

“Toy Story” ended gloriously, so I’ve got mixed feelings about Pixar going to the well once again. The CGI animation pioneers haven’t been the sure thing in recent years that Pixar was in the 90s and pre “Cars” 2000s. But … Continue reading →

Here’s how that film franchise practice of “fan service” can bite you right in the arse. You bring back the stars of the original trilogy, have them share the screen with your “reboot” cast, and everybody watching is slapped in … Continue reading →

A star poet is handed the latest work by his younger protege. It is titled “Disabled.” The protege is Wilfred Owen, one of the great voices of the trenches of the Great War. The mentor is Siegfried Sassoon, the other … Continue reading →

A good cast and the best of intentions cannot save the 1970s Boston school busing melodrama “The Walk” from its excesses. Funereal pacing, characters that are simplistic “types” and dialogue that recycles cliches and bromides pretty much overwhelm it. But … Continue reading →

A “Predator” prequel…set waaaaay before Arnold and Jesse & Co. ran into the alien hunter. “Comanche vs. Predator” would have been a catchier title. August 5 on Hulu.

Universal showed this one overseas earlier and there are reviews already up. And yet U insists there’s an embargo on North American notices for the last film in this latest digital dinosaurs trilogy. Of course, as they’re mostly Australian reviews, … Continue reading →

We can’t quit “Peter Pan.” A simple children’s play with themes of mortality, vanishing youth, feminine teenaged longing for Peter and boys-who-don’t-grow-into-men (“Peter Pan Syndrome”) and death and dying, aka the ultimate “awfully big adventure,” have proven irresistible to novelists … Continue reading →

An IFC creepout, headed our way in July. Are you scared yet?

Post partum depression triggers something in this house a couple moves into. “Abandoned” opens June 17.

Cam Gigandet, Louis Mandylor and Randy Couture star this B-movie about a bank heist, a valuable “briefcase” and what the guy shot and left for dead decides to do about that. June 17.