Yearly Archives: 2023

They didn’t screen this dog widely, hiding it from most critics until opening night. And the reviews reflected the damaged goods that “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” turned out to be. Deadline.com is noting that Warner Brothers is also “not reporting … Continue reading →

The first word that comes to mind when considering Christopher Smith’s “Consecration” is “classy.” There’s a polish and high-mindedness to it, a sheen to its gloomy Scottish setting and real acting talent deployed in this “mad convent” morality tale. Frights? … Continue reading →

Zoe Chao puts on a clinic on “the funny new BF of the leading lady” as a rom-com trope in “Your Place or Mine,” an exceptionally mild-mannered farce set up as a Reese Witherspoon/Ashton Kutcher vehicle. Chao plays the pretty, … Continue reading →

A wrap up for the “Fast and Furious” franchise? May 19, they give our heroes a villain with some serious throw weight. And just for fun, Brie Larson, aka “Captain Marvel,” shows up to give Michelle Rodriguez someone to worry … Continue reading →

For a movie set and shot in Wilmington, N.C., a romance that’s about making a movie in Wilmington, N.C., “Remember Yesterday” certainly gets a lot of movie-making basics wrong. It’s an amateurish amble through pre-production on location, with a prodigal … Continue reading →

A summer release from Universal that stars the voices of Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Randall Park, with Will Forte as the dude who ditches his dog. “R-rated,” with shades of “Ted” about it.

Grimsby seems to be a bit of a Brit laughing stock, as every mention of it in movies and TV use it as a punchline “Three Day Millionaire” makes it the city four lads try to save via robbery in … Continue reading →

“Lamya’s Poem” was pitched as an Oscar contender and did not make the cut. It still has topicality, ambition and promise, and streams Feb. 21.

“Coven of Sisters” is a tight, tense Argentinian period piece set in witch-hunting, Inquisition Era Spain. It’s clever enough to play around with the root reasons for witch-hunting — patriarchal control via terror — and so quick to make its … Continue reading →

Seriously? This is how you want to go out? A plotless, sexually-neutered piffle of a stripper movie, barely-scripted, with hardly enough “film” to fill a trailer, much less close to two hours of screen time? No, I didn’t like it. … Continue reading →