Monthly Archives: August 2022

Netflix has this one, which co-stars Journee Smollett as the neighbor/single mom whose kid might have been swiped to smoke out the bad ass retiree with “special skills” that the Oscar-winning Janney plays. Sept. 23. I may have to get … Continue reading →

Cute take on the novels that became a Chevy Chase franchise way back in the day — until nobody wanted to work with Chevy Chase any more. This is another Gregory McDonald book, about murders and art theft, very cinematic … Continue reading →

All the Twitter talk about Michael Mann’s “Heat” prequel novel and when it might be turned into a film has had me quipping “I’m holding out for his ‘FIRST of the Mohicans’” more times than the joke can stand. I … Continue reading →

The classic handicap of any “stoner comedy” is the expectations the filmmakers often put on the audience. If you’re coming to a stoner comedy, what you want out of it and what they need out of you is kind of…baked … Continue reading →

A classic, National Book Award-winning, satiric, career-launching post-modern novel, the film version reunites director Noah Baumbach and his “While We’re Young/Marriage Stories” star Adam Driver, and gives Driver his first Middle Aged Man role, that of a death-obsessed college professor … Continue reading →

I think about this bit of stuntman derring do every time I see “Beast,” or any digital lion, bear, gator, croc or dog on the screen. You think it’s more faked than it actually was. Nuh-uh.

As it drifts on well past its expiration date, the great Schwarzenegger/Stallone rivalry still has its unfinished business. Until now. At long last Sly Stallone has his “Last Action Hero,” an action pic — in this case a superhero story … Continue reading →

A god sphere in orbit around Mars? Let’s see what’s in it come Sept. 13.

There’ve been so many bank-hostage thrillers that it’s pretty much a thriller genre all its own. And as such, it’s very hard to make one that stands out from the crowd. The phrase “as you’ve never seen him before” was … Continue reading →

A German language drama about incest? Fall is here. Sept. 20, from the aptly-named Altered Innocence distributor.