Monthly Archives: April 2023

Law plays Capt. Hook, Jim Gaffigan is Smee, and a bunch of adorable Brit accented moppets flesh out the rest of the cast. April 28, Disney+, methinks.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has this Ukrainian…Western. Pistols, Katana swords and bloodshed. I napisheet you not. Opens Friday.

An American summoned to Italy to be “The Boss” of “The Family.” Toni Collette has the title role, Monica Bellucci is her rival/advisor, etc. Atsa gotta be cute, capisce?

Get past the sometimes cool and properly sinister effects and “The 9th Precinct” is a very stupid movie — or at least a seriously silly one — trying to pass itself off as a serious thriller. A tale of ghosts … Continue reading →

Any doubt that the Chinese invented noodles is utterly erased in Donnie Yen‘s martial arts actioner, “Sakra.” He takes this sword-and-sorcery saga straight into Spaghetti Eastern — or Ramen Noodles Western, if you prefer — territory from the first bit … Continue reading →

In the small town where I grew up, in the BFE borderlands of Virginia and N.C., I lived within walking distance of a downtown cinema that opened and closed a few times in my childhood, giving up the ghost completely … Continue reading →

“Devil’s Hollow” is a downbeat, torpid thriller of the Appalachian Gothic persuasion. A few solid performances and a strong sense of place never quite lift this formulaic melodrama out of the funk it wallows in. Shuler Hensley stars as Bobby … Continue reading →

It should go without saying that you don’t settle into the two-hours+ of a drama set within the world of haute cuisine with an empty stomach. That’s doubly true for the Thai tale “Hunger,” whose title is the last warning … Continue reading →

“STOP the presses!” they’d yell in all the old newspapering movies of the ’40s whenever something extraordinary would happen. But a bad movie blowing up the box office? Nothing to see here. Happens all the time. “The Super Mario Bros. … Continue reading →

A few tasty co stars fill the orbit of Sir Ben’s Salvador Dali, an unfocused “celebrity” during the era he befriended Mia Farrow and ran with the jet set, and had no time to paint. Sort of “My Week with … Continue reading →