Monthly Archives: February 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 →

Que horror! March 10, GKids unleashes this Spanish language animated…thriller?

The distributing studio elected not to preview this anywhere in Florida outside of Miami. Even though the original story was set in TAMPA. Smaller cheaper cinemas along the NC/Va border are fearful of what message a movie about dudes who … Continue reading →