Monthly Archives: June 2022

This Swiss co-production features teens making bad decisions, using each other and abusing social media and (when they’re in the picture) their parents. I rather liked “Lovecut,” which narrowly avoids the label “exploitation” in its portrayal of the shortsighted, irresponsible … Continue reading →

Box office actuals, reported via studio receipts added up this AM. “Elvis” wins the weekend, for those who keep track. With “Minions” and “Thor” on the way, The King will have a short reign. But does he have legs? Will … Continue reading →

Elvis comes to mind whilst watching the shoot-em-up “Code Name Banshee.” “A little less conversation, a little more action, please,” he’d sing. “All this aggravation ain’t satisfactioning me. A little more bite, a little less bark…” After a couple of … Continue reading →

When it comes to cult films, ours is not to reason why they gain that status. Ours is but to shrug and marvel that this rare phenomenon has occurred, again, and perhaps laugh or cringe along with the cultists, which … Continue reading →

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

Mandy Patinkin also stars in this “Let me tell you my story” sequel that takes “Wonder” and lessons about doing the right thing and kindness back to The Holocaust. October 14th.

“Sniper” movies are a combat genre all their own thanks to the fatal attraction of the loners — usually two-person teams — who do the work, hit-men or women in uniform, a one-or-two-shooter “surgical strike.” Many a first-person shooter video … Continue reading →