Daily Archives: January 30, 2023

Next screening? M. Knight’s horror parable for our time “Knock at the Cabin”

Dave Bautista and Co. test a gay couple and their kid in this “Sophie’s Choice for All Humanity” moral thought experiment. Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint, Abby Quinn, Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge also star. Shyamalan has gone all in on … Continue reading

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Movie Review: A Corpse of a Zombie Bomb Ironically-titled “Alive”

Don’t want to get too carried away about how much this new Brit zombie movie “Alive” sucks, but the “doctor” in a painfully amateurish opening scene gives “bad news” by putting on and taking off his glasses half a dozen … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Ryan Phillippe finds trouble before and after prison as “The Locksmith”

Not every actor in his position, once more famous than he is now and a long time between hit films or must-see series, gets the parts that Ryan Phillippe does. Even the B-movies have possibilities, and if not high-mindedness, at … Continue reading

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Movie Preview? Aniston and Adam Sandler are back for “Murder Mystery 2”

An Indian wedding, a kidnapped maharajah and Mark Strong as “a real detective” feature in this March 31 action comedy that is the third teaming of Sand Man and “Jenn.” Could be fun. Probably not, but let’s see what we … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Lily Collins plays a rich NYC DA thrown for a loop by Daddy’s “Inheritance”

Lily Collins plays a wealthy, powerful family’s daughter who learns about their skeleton in the attic — actually hidden in a bunker in the woods of the family estate — in “Inheritance,” a lumbering thriller from the director of the … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Mr. King’s next big screen adaptation, “The Boogeyman”

The horror writer and his son are having quite the big bounce in Hollywood paydays, and this June 2 release adds to that and yet barely scratches the surface in the back catalog of Stephen King writing that could be … Continue reading

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