Daily Archives: April 15, 2023

Movie Preview: A Charlie Day/Ray Liotta/Kate Beckinsale All-Star comedy destined to go straight to HBO — “Fool’s Paradise”

Look at all the famous faces and voices in this farce about a mental patient “dead ringer” for an actor who has to navigate making a movie and the fame that comes with that “Fool’s Paradise” of a life. Day … Continue reading

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Netflixable? Madrid’s famous Psychic “Team” has a jolly/scary time investigating “Phenomena” in this send-up

Collectively, they were called “The Hepta Group,” and during their peak years — the late ’80s and early ’90s — they were Spain’s three “witch” answer to “Ghostbusters.” Got a haunted house or antique store, poltergeist trouble or some other … Continue reading

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Documentary Review: Remembering “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” with John Lennon and “the Other Woman,” May Pang

I did not expect to like May Pang’s latest remembrance of her time with her former employer, then lover, John Lennon. The question tossed at her in some of her many TV interviews over the years, asking if she feels … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: “Renfield,””Air” and “Pope’s Exorcist” vie for second place, “Super Mario” plumbs another $87 million

Deadline.com is projecting a huge second weekend for “The Super Mario Bros.” movie, one of the biggest second weekends in the history of Illumination Animation. The second Friday since opening was down 60% from the first Friday. But a big … Continue reading

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