Yearly Archives: 2023

This features connections to the original film, and amped-up frights. David Gordon Green seems trapped in horror these days. Pity. Oct. 6, “The Believer” hits theaters.

The jocks are insecure drama queens who parade through school all day in their pads and uniforms and the girls who aren’t cheerleaders form their own “fight club” to remedy the lack of “female solidarity” in “Bottoms,” an amusingly outrageous … Continue reading →

These renditions of the classic, most-filmed tales from Dame Agatha’s canon feature shimmering production values, all-star casts and Sir Kenneth Branagh vamping up Hercule Poirot amongst them and expertly-handling the murder-mystery directing chores. Newly-crowned Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, … Continue reading →

“No More Bets” is a heavy-handed Chinese thriller about the evils of gambling, the perils of emigrating and the righteousness of Chinese policing as it pertains to international online scamming conspiracies. Overlong and somewhat lumbering, it’s sometimes entertainingly suspenseful, built … Continue reading →

A string of movies escaped at the end of summer, as they do every summer, as August-Labor Day is the traditional dumping ground of titles with low box office expectations which studios unload on cinemas, desperately in need of content … Continue reading →

Holy Karla Goes to the Circus! I had no idea this happened or was in the works. The obscurant title flitted by once or twice, but I didn’t realize is harkened the cinema’s greatest interviewer sitting down and going deep … Continue reading →

Obscure music docs are kind of a thing for a lot of us, especially those of the belief that “if it’s really popular, it can’t be all that good.” This doc about the breakup of a band most have never … Continue reading →

Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson had one of the most enduring actor marriages in Hollywood, a union that lasted some 56 years and only ended with Wallach’s death in 2014. Jackson died two years later. The talented master craftsman and … Continue reading →

This October 13 “inspired by a true story” drama is the best kind of faith-based film, uplifting, hopeful, righteous and apolitical. Nancy Travis and Alan Ritchson also star.

This looks like a grand appreciation of one of the giants of music, a ’60s survivor, guitar hero and Latin icon. Lovely.