Monthly Archives: December 2022

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 →

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 →