Monthly Archives: February 2023

”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 →

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.

Is Screen Gems frantically trying to grab the remake rights to the Korean stolen cell-phone thriller “Unlocked?” If they aren’t, the Hollywood distributor of “Searching” and its somewhat lesser follow-up “Missing” is missing the boat. “Unlocked” is a crackling, nervy … Continue reading →

Guy Ritchie’s (“Snatch”) and Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting”) made it all look so easy that Matthew Vaughn (“Layer Cake”) thought he’d have a go. But that slice of British working class/underclass/criminal class life ensemble dramedy thing is easy to imitate, harder … Continue reading →

Finally, a video game movie we can all get behind. March 31, this bizarre tale of how “the perfect game” escaped from the Soviet Union and made Gameboy the toy of the decade, comes to Apple TV+.

March 24, the gangs all back — Keanu, Lance, Laurence and Ian, with a Skarsgård, a “Warriors” reference and a Donnie Yen. What the trailer doesn’t tell you? This beast is two hours and 49 minutes long.

A Syrian refugee child finds comfort in the poetry, philosophy and biography of Jalaluddin Rumi in “Lamya’s Poem,” an engaging animated drama that compares its title character’s life and fate with that of her fellow refugee, a 13th century Persian … Continue reading →