Yearly Archives: 2023

Game recognizes game and there’s no hustle like hustling a hustler in “The Kill Room,” an unlikely all-star comedy about lowdown and dirty contract killing spilling over into the pretentious world of modern art and the “types” who inhabit it. … Continue reading →

Post apocalyptic child rearing, getting your baby “home” after an environmental catastrophe? Coming soon.

While one can appreciate the idea that a talented filmmaker with style and edge would turn his attention to children’s films, and the Texas-based studio he founded to shoot them in, a new Robert Rodriguez “Spy Kids” installment always gives … Continue reading →

“And Then Come the Nightjars” is a droll and poignant tale of male bonding and how a traumatic event scars such a relationship and sounds a death knell for a way of life. It’s distinctly British elegy, a two-handed piece … Continue reading →

Casting Olga Kurylenko is interesting, in that she’s got the action film bonafides. And the timing of the trailer, just as people are pondering why North American men spend so much time pondering the Roman Empire, couldn’t be better. Every … Continue reading →

A fourth go-round for the “Expendables,” with most of the all-star buzz/all-star cast of aging action star lineup checked out since the last film in that opening trilogy, is turning out to be have been a bad idea. Inflation-jacked ticket … Continue reading →

Because man doth not live by cinema alone. Svetlana Smolina at The Prizery, South Boston, VA

I can’t remember a comedy that caused me more anxiety than “Quicksand,” a scruffy little “film festival indie” that leaves that sheltered environment to try its luck competing in the real world. The lead characters are a couple goofballs who … Continue reading →

“The Saint of Second Chances” is the “baseball” documentary you never knew you wanted. Heartwarming, amusing, apalling and sad, this story of flawed baseball team owner, promoter/cheerleader Mike Veeck takes us through the ups and downs of a third generation … Continue reading →

“Dark Asset” is another “chip in his brain” supersoldier/super-agent “gone rogue” thriller — yeah, that’s pretty much a genre now — a movie that goes from bad to exponentially worse by giving itself over to what is passed-off as an … Continue reading →