Daily Archives: February 10, 2023

Zoe Chao puts on a clinic on “the funny new BF of the leading lady” as a rom-com trope in “Your Place or Mine,” an exceptionally mild-mannered farce set up as a Reese Witherspoon/Ashton Kutcher vehicle. Chao plays the pretty, … Continue reading →

A wrap up for the “Fast and Furious” franchise? May 19, they give our heroes a villain with some serious throw weight. And just for fun, Brie Larson, aka “Captain Marvel,” shows up to give Michelle Rodriguez someone to worry … Continue reading →

For a movie set and shot in Wilmington, N.C., a romance that’s about making a movie in Wilmington, N.C., “Remember Yesterday” certainly gets a lot of movie-making basics wrong. It’s an amateurish amble through pre-production on location, with a prodigal … Continue reading →

A summer release from Universal that stars the voices of Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Randall Park, with Will Forte as the dude who ditches his dog. “R-rated,” with shades of “Ted” about it.

Grimsby seems to be a bit of a Brit laughing stock, as every mention of it in movies and TV use it as a punchline “Three Day Millionaire” makes it the city four lads try to save via robbery in … Continue reading →

“Lamya’s Poem” was pitched as an Oscar contender and did not make the cut. It still has topicality, ambition and promise, and streams Feb. 21.

“Coven of Sisters” is a tight, tense Argentinian period piece set in witch-hunting, Inquisition Era Spain. It’s clever enough to play around with the root reasons for witch-hunting — patriarchal control via terror — and so quick to make its … Continue reading →

Seriously? This is how you want to go out? A plotless, sexually-neutered piffle of a stripper movie, barely-scripted, with hardly enough “film” to fill a trailer, much less close to two hours of screen time? No, I didn’t like it. … Continue reading →