Daily Archives: October 1, 2022

If “satire,” as playwright George S. Kaufman famously opined, “is what closes Saturday night,” where does “surrealism” sit on your average film consumer’s palate? Writer-director J. Rick Castaneda’s oddball career of web series (“Coma, Period,” which helped launch Rob Delaney) … Continue reading →

The box office is settling back into its time-proven pre-pandemic pattern of “If it’s horror, it opens at $18-20 million” with “Smile,” a nicely-hyped thriller built on the infectious “Smile” of its victims/perpetrators. After a slow Thursday, a decent Friday … Continue reading →

Walter Hill has been one of the modern cinema’s true masters of the Western film. He directed “The Long Riders,” “Geronimo,” and “Wild Bill,” and he directed the pilot of the TV series “Wild Bill” helped inspire, “Deadwood,” as well … Continue reading →

Twenty four characters’ stories telling of life going on during lockdown, this stars Sandra Oh, Mary-Louis Parker, Elaine May, Moses Ingram, Raul Castillo, Don Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt and others. Another “Zoom” reliant shutdown movie, but this one scripted and … Continue reading →