Monthly Archives: September 2022

I remember reviewing this one, but I had to look it up before passing it on to a public library that I either pass, visit or stop to do some writing in. came out early last summer. And while I … Continue reading →

A couple of things stick in the memory about “Oklahoma Crude,” a downbeat Western “action comedy” (lots of shooting and blowing stuff up) from the cinema’s filmmaker of conscience, director and producer Stanley Kramer. The “boomer” theme music by Henry … Continue reading →

“Mumblecore” as a movie genre is pretty much gone, but it survives in spirit in a daft little laugher titled “Pretty Problems,” a comedy scripted by its cast and that taps into that relative deprivation thing that the social media … Continue reading →

This is the Fantastic Fest teaser for this RLJE/Shudder release, date TBD.

If Robert “Sin City” Rodriguez remade the expressionistic classics “M” or “The Third Man,” chances are it’d look a lot like “Hinterland,” an Austrian thriller that recreates post World War I Vienna digitally on green screen soundstages. Director and co-writer … Continue reading →

The school’s halls are decorated with inspirational quotes from Socrates, Aristotle and Elvis. And in class, boys of 8, 9 and 10 raise their hands to be today’s “concept mapper” or be in today’s “Socratic Circle.” “Question of the day,” … Continue reading →

In theaters Oct. 14, on demand a few days later. A zombie movie about digging up a few friends.

Wild wacky stuff, twisted and nonsensical, from the mail order baby to the street corner baby mama. Nov. 8.

Novelty alone is worth something at the movies. And there’s plenty about “Give Me Five” that makes it a cinematic unicorn. Comedies from China are rarely imported. A comedy with a whiff of “Back to the Future” about it, with … Continue reading →

The stunning recreations in “Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche” put the viewer as close to an actual avalanche as anybody’d ever want to get. A mountain of snow, preceded by a hurricane-force wind-driven shock wave, chases a snowmobile down … Continue reading →