Monthly Archives: December 2022

Mike Hodges, a British filmmaker of some repute who made key films in the careers of Michael Caine (“Get Carter”) and Clive Owen (“Croupier”) has died at the ripe old age of 90. He did “The Terminal Man” and “Flash … Continue reading →

As the author of this New York Mag piece and its accompanying genealogy chart acknowledges, show business isn’t the only place nepotism exists in the American “meritocracy.” An early direct encounter I had with that was lightly mocking, when in … Continue reading →

Boy, the things fanboys will sit through just to see Japanese women in short skirts and knee-boots fight it out with samurai swords. The things screenwriters have to do to set a samurai sword-fighting movie in cheap-to-film-in Budapest. The skills … Continue reading →

The formula for a screen musical biography was already established by the time “Rhapsody in Blue,” which celebrated the brief, brilliant life of George Gershwin in a 1945 film that came out just a couple of years after his death. … Continue reading →

“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” is a simply-animated, elegiac parable about a lost child and the friends he makes among the talking wildlife who try to help him. It’s based on a best selling book by … Continue reading →

Disappearances, a connection to the comic book world, a deadpan anti-heroine, a fangirl/fanboy fave or two in the cast. Hayley Law (“Riverdale), Famke Janssen, Donal Logue, Keith Powers, with writer-director Avan Jogia as a heavy. Jan 13.

The casting seems solid, even though there could only be one supernaturally beautiful woman with that one of a kind voice. She’s grown on me. Could be emotional. They’re waiting late enough to show it and we just had an … Continue reading →

“Who’s a Good Boy?” is a Mexican variation on the “last guy to lose his virginity” teen sex comedy, one that takes its title from the label for guys who end up in “The Friend Zone,” aka being someone’s pet … Continue reading →

Intriguing world building here, as you might expect. Starving artists are a fascinating self absorbed community, here peopled by believably cute eccentrics. Judd Hirsch is the big name in the supporting cast. “Showing Up” shows up in late spring.

“Waking Up Dead” is an emotionally flatlining romantic dramedy that can’t decide if it would rather be a glib gloss of shallow actors and their shallow lives, or a glib gloss of the struggles that might be hidden beneath all … Continue reading →