Monthly Archives: June 2022

It’s starting to look as if Pixar and Disney should leave “Toy Story” alone. They’ve ridden that mule to death. A decent but underwhelming Thursday night of $5.2 million, and a $20 million Friday (including Thursday) point to a big … Continue reading →

At a couple of points in this indie trailer one wonders if the filmmakers have seen a Western, much less carefully taken note of their tropes, dialogue, etc.

One of the singular pleasures of traveling “Around the World with Netflix” is tumbling into a new mystery thriller from down Argentine Way. The genre’s practically a cottage industry down there, with “Blood Will Tell (La Misma Sangre),” “Black Snow” … Continue reading →

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 →