Monthly Archives: August 2022

I don’t recognize any actors in this low budget look at the early military age life of Edgar Allan Poe. Love the tone and the vibe it gives off. It’s on Shudder. I am headed there shortly.

Coming Sept. 2, to theaters and streaming.

“A ‘film,’” the old joke goes, “is a ‘movie’ we don’t quite understand.” And if you’re not a little confused when you’re watching a film by French avante garde/Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) director Jean-Luc Godard, you’re probably not getting it. … Continue reading →

Stephen James, Travis Fimmel and Paul Walter Hauser also star in this convict in search of justice for his sister tale. August 19.

“Lie Hard” is a time-wasting “comedy” about a dope who lies himself into an “out of your league” girlfriend, who lies himself into a mansion to keep her, gets in Dutch with the mob to get the mansion and lies … Continue reading →

On the sliding scale of “house party that turns to murder mystery” films, “Bodies Bodies Bodies” falls on the “Ready or Not” end of the spectrum, with “Knives Out” on the other. It’s glib, topical, jokey and bloody, and as … Continue reading →

I reviewed this engaging and informative rocker doc about a ground breaking female band some months back, and how it’s time for the folks who use the Orange County Library System, South Trail Branch, to check this pre-Runaways ensemble out. … Continue reading →

As 30 year-old whose belief that she’s “a 70 year-old woman trapped in the body of a 30 year-old” is tested out via “past life regression,” Diane Keaton shrieks and sputters, totters on towering high-heel thigh-high boots and tumbles into … Continue reading →

You know what we call a simple, primal, stranded-at-a-great height thriller like “Fall?” Pretty damned good for what it is. Melodramatic and nerve-wracking, predictable and still jolting, this B-movie directed by Scott Mann (“Heist,””Final Score”) toys with us and plays … Continue reading →

This looks a bit by Lina Wertmuller’s “Swept Away” and its crappy American remake. Shipwrecked, and class conflicts will come to the fore. “Triangle of Sadness” is from the Swedish director of “Force Majeure” and “The Square.” So funny? Maybe. … Continue reading →