Yearly Archives: 2023

Stately. Sentimental. Bit of a departure for Guy Ritchie. Dar Salim co-stars as the interpreter a soldier decides he must save, thanks to “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.” Yes, that’s its full title. April.

“Rye Lane” has all the ingredients of a classic romantic comedy. All of them. It starts with a “meet cute,” introduces a morose, just-dumped guy to a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, compresses time into (mostly) a magical single day walking-and-talking … Continue reading →

The Carnegie award-winning children’s novel “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” makes its way to the screen more or less intact in a delightful and sometimes droll British animated film, “The Amazing Maurice.” Created originally for Sky TV in … Continue reading →

He’s a loner, a photographer who runs the photo studio he inherited from his father, a man who almost never speaks, especially to women. His hobby is photographing insects in the parks of this corner of Japan. He even keeps … Continue reading →

Paul and Vin and Michelle et al, back in the blush of youth, when they were all living and this decades old franchise was fresh. “Fast X” is coming, and its own trailer is in the works.

A kid who longs to grow up to be a pro surfer rides waves and surfs through the shoals of a seriously dysfunctional home life in “Ocean Boy,” which was titled “Bosch & Rockit” in Australia, where this “true story” … Continue reading →

“Infinity Pool” is a violent, hallucinatory thriller that puts the viewer, like its protagonist, in a pretty ugly head space. It’s unpleasant, gory and occasionally troubling, so of course Mia Goth co-stars in it. That’s become her brand. It wallows … Continue reading →

What does M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation “Knock at the Cabin” have in common with “Old,” “Lady in the Water” and “The Happening?” It’s glib, gloomy, and in the end, kind of pointless. Even its “apocalyptic” edge seems played, a road … Continue reading →

A secret network of “ordinary people” fights the Japanese. Because heaven knows the Nationalists and the Communists weren’t having much of a go of that. The trailer to this Feb. 17 release doesn’t give us anything but the cast — … Continue reading →