Monthly Archives: June 2022

It’s accepted wisdom that people age out of going to the movies. So stories about a demographic that’s abandoned the cinema are unfairly but justifiably rare. But the multiplex’s loss in the streaming cinema’s gain. Case in point, the laugh-out-loud … Continue reading →

The fascist lampooning stage sensation cones to this big screen — and Netflix — Dec. 13. Looks “Oliver Twisted.” A distaff “Pink Floyd’s The Wall.”

Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is the “Titanic” of musical biographies, a fantasia on its subject that synthesizes all that we know and much that we feel and wish about its iconic subject in a swirl of images, impressions and sounds surrounding … Continue reading →

The motorcycle chase scenes are the stars of the Spanish drug courier-by-bike thriller “Centaur (Centauro).” Alex Monner (“A Thief’s Daughter, “”Bajocero”) has the title role. Rafa is a Catalan motocross rider who never-quite-made-the-transition to track racing, thanks to inadequate rides. … Continue reading →

Let’s see what the fuss is about.

There’s an almost magical acting moment early in the haunted house thriller “Abandoned.” It’s a scene in which new mom Emma Roberts, playing a new mom with post-partum depression that’s keeping her from bonding with her baby. She picks the … Continue reading →

Out there and against the “Don’t say gay” grain of American political bigotry of the moment. Whistling through the graveyard audacity at its finest? Sept. 30.

Did she lose the accent to play the cinema’s most famous blonde? In an NC-17 take on Monroe’s life will people notice? Sept 23 we will find out.

It’s a staple of the vampire/werewolf/witch hunting genre, that moment when some cocky wiseass takes a gander at his or her quarry and asks a colleague that fateful, fatal question. “What’s so special about THIS one?” Holmes, you’re about to … Continue reading →