Monthly Archives: August 2022

Sept. 2. Beware of tiny mean girls.

A romantic comedy with “Wedding Season” as its title kind of gives away the game. There are going to be weddings — maybe “Wedding Crashers” weddings, perhaps “27 Dresses” weddings. Since it’s rated TV-PG and more Indian than Indian American, … Continue reading →

The “In Bruges” team in front of and behind the camera, Ireland’s finest, take us into a very personal feud in an Ireland of the recent past. Funny, with a nasty edge, as you’d expect from the director of “Three … Continue reading →

“Easter Sunday” is a sentimental, lighthearted star-vehicle built around Filipino American comic Jo Koy. With Koy playing a stand-up comic trying to mollify his Filipino-American (Catholic) family and cope with their foibles, it’s a cute, occasionally amusing, no-heavy-lifting-required peek into … Continue reading →

“Wild Men” is a deliciously deadpan Scandinavian farce about the crisis in masculinity, skewering poseurs, shortcut-taking criminals and lazy, incompetent cops in a slow-walking pursuit thriller that really isn’t about the thrills. Every decision a man makes in it seems … Continue reading →

Jackie Moore has the title role, and this bad girl is on VOD now.

Hostages forced to tunnel into a demolition job, this one looks promising. Emile Hirsch with a drawl? Sept. 23.

In the words of Simon Pegg‘s mother tongue and mother accent, what manner of “jobby-flavored fart lozenge” is this? Two Oscar winners in the cast, plus Pegg and Pixar’s good luck charm John Ratzenberger, and “Luck” turns out to have … Continue reading →

It’s considered one of the most righteous acts on Earth, the simple planting of a tree. But can it be an act of destruction as well? The Canadian playwright and screenwriter (“After the Ball”) Jason Sherman ponders that question in … Continue reading →

Two unutterably gorgeous Mexican actresses dressed in assorted sexy dresses are about all there is to recommend the perky but drab romantic comedy “Don’t Blame Karma!” Aislinn Derbez and Renata Notni play siblings, Sara and Lucy. A harmless “incident” in … Continue reading →