Monthly Archives: January 2023

Legend has it that Clint Eastwood’s first move when accepting a script — as an actor or a director — is to go through it and slash extraneous dialogue, leaving just enough to have the story make sense. I guess … Continue reading →

Every neighborhood has one, that perpetually prickly “You kids get off my lawn!” martinet. He lives, in his mind, in an ordered universe. And all the “idiots” around him, at work, at home and in life, are screwing that up. … Continue reading →

They seem like such a nice couple. He’s strolling around the grounds of their gated subdivision in his robe on a chilly winter’s morning. She’s sleeping in. When she wakes, she wants him to repeat a “lost at sea/remember why … Continue reading →

It’s a menace the single woman thriller with gimmick casting fleshing out the ensemble. Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, G-Easy, Winnie Harlowe, Deadass, Luis Guzman, Sky Ferreira, Jake Weary — a slasher thriller with laughs? Jan. 20.

So Keaton and Richard Gere are a couple, and Sarandon and William H. Macy are a couple, only they’re cheating on each other with each other. If you follow. And one couple’s daughter (Roberts) is stuck with the commitment-phobic son … Continue reading →

There’s something about the world’s first detective novelist that makes writers and filmmakers envision him as a gentleman sleuth. A courtly, erudite romantic with morbid streak and a Virginia drawl, Edgar Allan Poe must have been one of the inspirations … Continue reading →

It isn’t the black and white cinematography that gives away the fact that “Lenny,” Bob Fosse’s film about the life, career and decline of comedian Lenny Bruce, is of a different era. It’s the patience. This 1974 film, based on … Continue reading →

It can sometimes seem that all the “let’s throw some money at” productions that Netflix streamed as feature films over the past year are just one interminable and awful movie. Maybe you figured that out on your own. Me? I … Continue reading →

The best selling point of “Happy FKN Sunshine,” a “let’s start a metal band” dramedy, is that the title makes it sound British, or better yet Irish. But no. It’s Canadian, set and shot in Ontario. They swear up there … Continue reading →

The child actor stars of “Nightbooks” really “sell” the frights in this Goosebumpy tale of terror. There’s quite a bit of screaming and frantic, gasping weeping at their plight and fear that they won’t survive this predicament or that ordeal. … Continue reading →