Monthly Archives: February 2023

A Celine Song film fest favorite, it stars Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro. It’s coming in April.

Movies filmed in close-up used to be a hallmark of television, then a medium with budgetary and screen-size restraints that begged for what actors came to term “neck up performances.” In the movies, the full-frame face can create an almost … Continue reading →

Well, thank heaven “Linoleum” isn’t about Jim Gaffigan, as a frustrated kids’ TV science show host, building a rocket in his garage and launching himself into space. We’ve all seen “The Astronaut Farmer,” after all. And Wallace & Gromit’s “A … Continue reading →

The Oscar-nominated “The Fabelmans” showed that there’s still an audience for Judd Hirsch leaning into the Old Jewish Man shtick, which makes the indie comedy “iMordecai” marketable. So here we are and here he is, a very old man in … Continue reading →

Hey, if we have “gender reveal parties,” why not a sperm donor party? March 3, this raunchy empowerment comedy, co-starring Rob Corddry, Bria Henderson, Erinn Hayes and Jerry O’Connell is unleashed upon us all, and as Tracy Morgan likes to … Continue reading →

Philippa Soo is getting over that “long lost husband” (Luke Bracey) with Mr. Right (Simu Liu of “Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings”)…and then the husband comes back from the supposedly dead, but at least lost at … Continue reading →

“A Sunday Affair” is a soapy love-triangle melodrama bathed in Nigerian affluence. The plotting is obvious, the acting stiff and stagebound and the payoff an eye-roller. Aside from that… An opening montage lets us see that Uche and Toyim have … Continue reading →

A morose, motherless teen finds out a few things about himself and his gene pool when his alcoholic, dying granny comes to stay with him in “Juniper,” a curtain call drama built around a fine turn by screen legend Charlotte … Continue reading →

“How I Became a Gangster” trots out every plot device, every trope and every cliche of every gangster picture of the past twenty years and gives them all a coke-flavored Polish accent. It’s an over-familiar tale buried under an incessant, … Continue reading →

A brilliant conceit sets up a cutesy, just-clever-enough New York comedy in “God’s Time,” a tale of twelve steps and an addict with a grudge and a gun. It’s a movie that brazenly riffs on why actor’s love movies about … Continue reading →