Monthly Archives: March 2023

“Rimini” is a darkly-comic Austrian tale of a Lounge Singer in Winter, figuratively and literally. This Ulrich Seidl film is set in the Italian resort city in the off-season, when the snow blows and the water park is closed. That’s … Continue reading →

The producers pulling together a long-expected sequel to “Twister” would be wise to take a look at “Supercell” before shooting starts. It’s a “Twister” sequel in everything but name. A kid grows up in Florida, where his blonde, ex-storm scientist … Continue reading →

“Shazam: Fury of the Gods” stumbles down the narrow line between “kid-friendly” and “just plain juvenile.” As the “Shazam” movies are engineered for a younger audience, Janie and Johnny’s first comic book movie, that isn’t a blanket condemnation. It rises … Continue reading →

It’s 2023. Maybe the world is finally ready for Little Richard and everything he unleashed April 21, from Magnolia and CNN Films.

The Beijing-based husband and wife team of Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka’s latest portrait of China’s Generation Xi follows a protagonist from their drama “The Foolish Bird” into college but unable to escape the rootlessness and grind that the country’s … Continue reading →

“John Wick: Chapter 4” is way cool, and way too damned long. It is the epic and epic-length installment in a franchise that’s served up “the same, only more of it” with each fresh outing, a lurid, violent, over-armed, over-designed … Continue reading →

A “pre COVID mob scene” per the theater manager of this Regal Cinemas.

You’ve got to be brave when you include “special needs” characters in your movie. There are sensibilities, issues of compassion, prejudice in a “pre-judging” sense and even nomenclature that can get you into trouble. I hesitate to even mention movies … Continue reading →

Willem Dafoe leads us into madness as a sort of performance art in “Inside,” a simple, austere thriller with a highly-polished sheen. A man, trapped by his greed and artistic/class resentment and passion for that one missing “self portrait” by … Continue reading →

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