Monthly Archives: February 2023

The job of “High Commissioner” of a set of islands in French Polynesia has to be any bureaucrat’s dream posting. Wear lots of white linen suits, make the occasional speech, sit down with local politicians and opinion leaders over fresh … Continue reading →

This is a Knoxville TV station’s account of the story that is the basis for “Cocaine Bear,” a little archival footage homework before my next screening, Ms. Banks’ stoned bear horror comedy.

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 →

So, Jonathan Majors plays another villain, this time in another variation on a theme by Stallone. It opens March 3, so obviously they think they have another winner. Let’s hope so!