Yearly Archives: 2023

We judge Mia, right from the start, because we’re invited to. She’s very pregnant, pretty young and scrambling to get to her work, her classes and meeting her two children. The classes are mandated by the state. There are drug … Continue reading →

It plays like a rowdy, raunchy 1970s Blaxploitation period piece. Because aside from cell phones, what’s changed in “tha’hood” in the past 50 years? Gang-bangers, pimps and “ho’s” riding around in Yank tank Buicks, aimless souls pumping iron, hitting the … Continue reading →

“Cobweb” is a horror genre piece as simple and to the point as its title. A child hears noises in the walls of the old house where he lives, and in trying to raise the alarm with his parents, comes … Continue reading →

Regal Waterford Lakes, Orlando, 833pm Thursday July 21. “Barbie” fans represent. My review is here. The movie, as of Friday AM, is on track to $100 million+ on its opening weekend, just in North America. Huge overseas, too.

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is a movie of its moment, a brilliant bauble of female empowerment, scathing satire and genuine wit. That “war on women” that is eating up so much of America’s bandwidth right now takes it in the gonads … Continue reading →

The “Beanie Baby Craze” of the 1990s silenced anybody who ever had a laugh when learning of the “Tulip Fever” that gripped Dutch collectors, investors and ordinary folk in 17th century Holland. And no movie about the Clinton Era plush … Continue reading →

For some reason, a Childersburg Alabama rescue squad member told a local TV affiliate in BFE, Alabama that a “TikTok Challenge” involving teens leaping off the back of speeding motorboats has killed four kids this year and that this was … Continue reading →

Winter Park, Florida ready for a (preview) fright because they know if it’s an A24 horror release, it’ll be smart. (Updated: A link to my review of “Talk to Me” is here.)

A good punch in the gut to end July, right? A24 knows horror. This one opens July 28.

John Sweet’s not a name you think of when you remember the great actors, or even the lesser ones of Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was a Minneapolis schoolteacher turned sergeant in the Army, training in Great Britain to liberate Europe … Continue reading →