Yearly Archives: 2023

The timing could not be more perfect for a thriller flipping the current AI debate on its head, an updating of everything “Blade Runner,””A.I.” and “The Terminator” wrestled with in action epic form. “The Creator” is derivative, but inventively so, … Continue reading →

Matthew Vaughn’s latest is a “Kingsman” styled spy good/spoof with Bryce Dallas Howard as a novelist whose latest hits assorted spies and spy agencies where they live. Sam Rockwell and Samuel L., Catherine O’Hara and Bryan Cranston and Henry Cavill, … Continue reading →

As thrillers go, “Accused” is simplicity itself. It’s just a guy, hunted, identified, harassed, threatened and tracked-down online, trapped in his parents’ house, waiting to be doxed, swatted or worse. The clever touches in the script to this new British … Continue reading →

The full trailer to this “world’s greatest spy” thriller drops tomorrow. Why all the fuss? Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L., a digital cat, with Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Sofia Boutella, CAtherine O’Hara, Rob Delaney and many others. But … Continue reading →

An outstanding cast overcomes a tendency by the filmmakers to try too hard in wrestling with arcane financial maneouvering in “Dumb Money,” a sort of “Big Short Lite” about the Gamestop stock manipulation war of a couple of years back. … Continue reading →

Two Oscar winners face off in a tale of a notorious romance from 20 years before — Portman interviewing and getting to know Julianne Moore, a woman who once had an affair with a “seventh grader.” Charles Melton and Kelvin … Continue reading →

Classic American small city in the Midwest — more diverse and tolerant than you expect, “safe” to those who move there. And then Donald Trump gets elected and the racist goons come out from under the rocks they’d been hiding … Continue reading →

One early assertion in Nick Broomfield’s new documentary appreciation “The Stones and Brian Jones” will stand out to many a Rolling Stones fan, the idea that “I don’t think many people remember who (Jones) was.” Even someone coming to the … Continue reading →

How’s this for a romantic “meet cute?” He spies her outside the flat of a mate, a tracksuited young woman with bangs to die for and a willingness to sprint and parkour her getaway. He’s a combat soldier, apparently just … Continue reading →

This could be a fascinating peek into the machinations meant to end coerced confessions by short-cutting cops, and how this civil rights work impacted the young woman whose alleged accused attacker bore the surname that became known as “Read’em their … Continue reading →