Monthly Archives: February 2023

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 →

After tamping down expectations a tad, this turns out to be a franchise-best opening for the “Ant Man” corner of the marvel universe. Deadline.com’s projections, that “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” would finish second, edging out “Avatar: The Way … Continue reading →

”Bunker” is a pokey, low-heat/low-energy WWI horror movie rendered in airlessly theatrical strokes by director Adrian Langley. Some of that staginess wanders into the starchy performances of the leads. And as we start to notice this is the quietest combat … Continue reading →

With “Possessed,” Malay-language cinema takes tenative, lurching steps into the world of the “Living Dead,” “Walking Dead” and “Evil Dead.” The zombies in this attack-on-a-remote-single-sex-college-campus tale start out zombie-walking and turn into “World War Z” sprinters by the third act. … Continue reading →

A $17.5 million Thursday tipped us that the latest “Ant-Man and The Wasp” movie was going to have a better than fine, considerably less than overwhelming opening weekend at the box office. Fold that in to what added up to … Continue reading →

Mystery hangs over the images of Natives that Helmut Dosantos captures in his debut feature doc, “Gods of Mexico.” These are ancient people doing ancient jobs in the most traditional way imaginable, and Dosantos set out to document entirely with … Continue reading →

From a press release I got today, datelined NYC, “now in pre-production.” “Uwe Boll, the prolific director and producer, is coming back after a 5 year hiatus, entering with his feature film ‘FIRST SHIFT.’ The crime drama follows an NYC … Continue reading →

This sweet little romance, from director Kyra Sedgewick, was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn and comes out March 31.