Daily Archives: October 16, 2022

Tricks and traps and poison and old friends and high stakes. This one features RZA and Liam Hemsworth in support and hits theaters Nov. 16, streaming shortly thereafter. My review of “Poker Face” is linked here.

The simple pleasure of seeing Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor paired-up as brothers by different mothers does the heavy lifting of “Raymond & Ray,” a downbeat dramedy about their dead father’s last wish. It starts out as an estranged-sibling melodrama, … Continue reading →

The first four or five times one hears a snippet of the story of how 1920s and ’30s singing, dancing and acting sensation Josephine Baker was a French spy of great repute during World War II, the only rational reaction … Continue reading →