Yearly Archives: 2023

My old friend Todd Thompson, an Orlando filmmaker who struck gold with a Nichelle Nichols doc “Woman in Motion” that every “Star Trek” fan saw, is back with a Beatles before they were The Beatles film. His doc “Pre Fab!” is … Continue reading →

“Limbo” is a darker-than-dark Hong Kong serial killer thriller in the “Se7en” mold — formulaic, but brutish and bleak and bloody-minded. Veteran director Pou-Soi Cheang (the “Monkey King” action pics were his) shows us a Hong Kong rarely seen on … Continue reading →

Quick show of hands, anybody frightened, shocked or spooked by the tenth torture porn tale in the “Saw” franchise? Sure, it’s great seeing Tobin Bell back as the original “moral” judge, jury, torturer and exucutioner Jigsaw, aka John Kramer, here … Continue reading →

If Oprah taught us anything, it’s that we’re all the heroes of our own narrative and entitled to speak our “Truth.” So let’s give Louisiana’s Robertson clan, who brought camo, duck calls, huntin’ and fishin’ and Z.Z. Top beards into … Continue reading →

The action auteur returns to theaters Dec. 1. Let the mayhem begin.

I didn’t bother catching the formerly straight to streaming “Paw Patrol” sequel when it previewed last weekend.  But here it is, dominating Friday and looking like a BO winner, heading to a $22 million+ opening weekend, per deadline.com. Not great … Continue reading →

It’s a match made in movie heaven, or so one would think. Apply the twee stylings of America’s most precious and airlessly droll filmmaker, Wes Anderson, to the darkly comic fiction of Britain’s frightener of children, Roald Dahl. “The Wonderful … Continue reading →

An “institute” that’s developed a “test to make the bond of love grow stronger.” Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Luke Wilson star in this Oct. 27 release, coming to Apple TV+ shortly thereafter. Love that cast.

Some entertaining truck stunts are the chief recommendation of “Overhaul,” a big rig racing, big-rig hijacking thriller from Brazil. This “Around the World With Netflix” outing is a “Fast and Furious” knock-off with dull characters, generic situations and little that … Continue reading →

How does this Nov. 22 Mouse House offering sound to you, look to you? “Bland beyond belief” was my first take on it, seeing this trailer in front of “The Creator” last night. “Cutesy” Happy Meal toy characters. Generic story … Continue reading →