Monthly Archives: December 2022

Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” is the movie viewing equivalent of being assaulted by a hot mess, perhaps the hottest hot mess you’ve ever met. Even as it’s shouting at you and unpleasant, even when you’re most aware that “this will never … Continue reading →

Molly Shannon is among the co stars in this sentimental dramedy from an actor/director a long way from his “Garden State” breakout film. This looks sweet. Interesting to see Pugh in this guise. March.

“God’s Crooked Lines” is a modestly complex hybrid thriller, a blend of “Who is telling the truth, who is gaslighting whom?” and “Is this real or is this in my head?” stories, naturally set in a mental institution. A good … Continue reading →

A documentary, five years in the making, about the slow-footed race-against-time to finish an epic “three volume” biography of Lyndon Johnson’s fifth and final volume before the researcher/author and his editor pass away from very old age is nobody’s idea … Continue reading →

Wise and honorable is the action filmmaker who credits her or his fight choreographer right up front in the opening credits. That’s true in Hollywood, Seoul, Hong Kong or Jakarta, as today’s Around the World with Netflix offering proves. Director … Continue reading →

Opens in January, VOD and DVD in Feb.

Well, at least they give away their big spoiler in the trailer. Future ordnance unleashed against T Rex? This is a rare straight up action pic for Driver, and looks very “Chariots of the Gods,” for those who remember the … Continue reading →

I was inspired to pick this up after seeing Sully’s copy in his van in the cannibalism romantic thriller “Bones and All.” What’s the meaning of this short story collection being something a roving diner on human flesh would keep … Continue reading →

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 →