Monthly Archives: April 2023

One of the cardinal rules of any sports film is that the actors portraying players need to be convincing in that sport, and the that filmmaker must know how to storyboard, block and edit surfing or soccer, golf, baseball, football … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Orson Welles’ depiction of the confusing, intimate, bloody muddy mire of the Battle of Shrewsbury in “Chimes at Midnight” is the gold standard for Medieval combat recreated on film. Mel Gibson once told me he consulted “Chimes” in choreographing and … Continue reading →

Russell Crowe has made many films better than “The Pope’s Exorcist,” and a few one could label as objectively “worse.” But he’s never made a more cynical movie, a shameless late-career grasp at that which he eschewed back when the … Continue reading →

“Hands on a Hardbody,” the story of Texans competing to win a new “pick’em up truck” by seeing who could stand up and keep one hand on it the longest was a documentary that was excerpted for a “This American … Continue reading →

Say what you like about “Florida Man,” a riff through a lot of familiar action comedy/caper comedy/film noir tropes. It keeps you just invested enough to figure you’re going to have to finish it. Kind of. More or less. The … Continue reading →

A 19th century charter voyage from Romania to…HELL? Well, trapped on a sailing ship with a vampire seems close enough to that. Corey Hawkins (“BlackKklansman,””In the Heights,” “Tragedy of Macbeth”), Aisling Franciosi and Liam Cunningham star in this salty take … Continue reading →