Yearly Archives: 2023

“Renfield?” He’s got issues. He’s in a support group. Can they work these toxic workplace issues out? April 14, we’ll see.

Rampling plays the retired war correspondent who has to take the troubled offspring of a sibling in this period piece, coming out Feb. 24. Looks lovely.

French action auteur Romain Gavras turns a racial flashpoint and riot in a suburban Paris high rise housing complex into a Medieval siege in “Athena,” an epic in unrest painted with a camera. It’s a film of beautiful images and … Continue reading →

So the franchise that made Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell household names is revived, a state-of-the-art horror thriller about mothers and daughters and “maggots.” Lee Cronin, who dug “The Hole in the Ground,” scripted and directed this reboot, with a … Continue reading →

I only knew this guy from “Top Gear,” this appearance especially. YouTube star as well Quite the drifter, Ken Block taught the world the meaning of Hoonigan. A co founder of DC shoes, which I’m wearing right now. Died the … Continue reading →

“M3GAN” is a fierce and fun thriller about a doll that develops a murderous mind of its own. Sure, that’s as tired a trope as there is in the horror realm. But this laugh-out-loud dark comedy flirts with being THE … Continue reading →

What a difference a few days makes. If they’d released “Last Resort,” a clumsily-copied “Die Hard” knockoff, by Dec. 31, it might have made a few critics’ “Worst of the Year” list. It’s badly-written and amateurishly-acted, so amateurishly that one … Continue reading →

We’ve had months of hype for this AI robot doll turns murderous thriller. Universal seems high on it. Let’s see what the deal is.

Legend has it that Clint Eastwood’s first move when accepting a script — as an actor or a director — is to go through it and slash extraneous dialogue, leaving just enough to have the story make sense. I guess … Continue reading →