Monthly Archives: January 2023

The Polish drama “Illusion” (“Illuzja”), like the missing person search it is about, gives up its secrets sparingly and quietly. We follow a mother (Agata Buzek) who staggers from hope to despair, passing through grief to exasperation along the way, … Continue reading →

“Kids vs. Aliens” is a low-budget horror comedy with big “Goonies” energy, a “Psycho Goreman” riff on kids who love horror movies who find themselves living through one. It’s the latest from Canadian Jason Eisener, who directed “Hobo with a … Continue reading →

This opens in limited release in the US three days after the Oscar nominations are announced. Egypt today, looks promising. Jan. 27.

The Hitchcock films that draw me back in, time and again, are the lighter-hearted ones. As much as I relish “Strangers on a Train,””Vertigo,” “Rear Window” or “Notorious,” it’s the murderous, mysterious larks that hold up best for me. I … Continue reading →

“Lonesome” is a danged-near-adorable throwback romance that plays like a love letter to being single and mingling in Milwaukee. Producer/writer/director Tony K. Hall shot it in black and white — with cotton candy and its effects on the tongue the … Continue reading →

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and the boys chew on “Train Kept a Rollin’” while David Hemmings searches searches searches for his someone. Did director Michelangelo Antonioni tell that crowd to stand stock still so that Hemmings could weave amongst them? … Continue reading →

The sets, effects and production design of “The Devil Conspiracy” is damned impressive — huge and gloomy, foggy, Apocalyptic and Hellish. One would expect no less from a movie that mashes up “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Exorcist” and “The Boys from … Continue reading →

Netflix has this teen rom-com thing down. Joey King or Ava Michele or Anjelika Washington or Camila Mendes, the leading ladies may change. But the aspirational wealth-and-bling settings don’t. The vocal fry sass, the best Hollywood dentistry money can buy … Continue reading →

Feb. 3, this lovely looking dramedy hits theaters.

If chemistry were all, then the sparks Amy Adams and Matthew Goode set off might be enough in ‘Leap Year,’ a romantic comedy in which those sparks never quite ignite. Wrapped too tight American meets louche, world-weary Irishman? Add Guinness … Continue reading →