Daily Archives: December 14, 2022

Hallmark of a Hallmark style holiday romance? The pretty single woman/divorced mom always falls for a guy who moisturizes and uses more makeup than her. Sometimes they shave. Sometimes they’re fashion mag cover-model “rugged.” And sometimes they’re a bit older … Continue reading →

I just wasted more time than I should have trying to pin down whether Nora Kaye and Whitney Uland were real life friends since childhood, which is what they play in their new comedy, “The Cosmos Sisters.” As I’ve seen … Continue reading →

March 10, the masked murderer takes the subway.

“I Used to be Famous” is a sweet little nothing of a feel-good comedy, a sometimes cloying wish-fulfillment fantasy about a pop music has-been and his new drummer, an autistic prodigy with the sticks. It’s built around a winning turn … Continue reading →

Heartfelt, animated to look like a comic book in motion, zany, trippy and multiverse. The dot matrix style of animation gave some folks vertigo and headaches (me among them). Same deal, you think?

Here’s a movie that opens a theme park in every 3D cinema in the world. James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water,” is a stunning and immersive big screen experience pretty much without peer in cinema history. Its beautiful, digitally-realized … Continue reading →