Daily Archives: April 24, 2023

Damn, this looks a LOT like “More Than a Game, the 2008 doc LeBron James participated in and produced. Buzz Bissinger of “Friday Night Lights” is involved this time, but… June 2. Maybe it’ll be more revealing.

Ben Milliken the actor more or less holds his own as a seemingly unkillable bouncer, drug mule and factotum for another Mexican Reina del Sur in “Snag,” an indie thriller in the “El Mariachi” mold. As a director and co-writer … Continue reading →

As comic thrillers go, “Andy Somebody” isn’t much. It’s about a put-upon accountant who steals from a loathesome, abusive and thoroughly crooked California plastic surgeon and said surgeon’s efforts to recover his ill-gotten gains. There are no thrills in this … Continue reading →

“A Tourist’s Guide to Love” is a lovely Vietnamese travelogue in search of a romantic comedy that would transform the trip into a movie. It’s a Rachel Leigh Cook star vehicle so inane that even she seems more interested in … Continue reading →

“Broadway” is a solidly suspenseful Greek film noir set among Athen pickpockets, men and a woman laying low by night, putting on “shows” to distract their marks during the day and slowly figuring out the trap this life is, one … Continue reading →

Ken Loach is Britain’s great social justice filmmaker, a chronicler of labor struggles and Irish uprisings and working class folks just trying to survive every fresh assault on their way of life. Films like “Kes” and “Land and Freedom” and … Continue reading →