Daily Archives: May 5, 2023

Another tale of “When the aliens come knocking,” this one with a zombie/horror bent. June 6, Uncork’d uncorks this B-movie.

Our Lord John Cleese is the last top billed voice — as an arrogant fat cat frog — in this Viva Kids animated pic that’s opening May 12. J.K. Simmons doing a South of the Border accent? As a goat?

The question, tossed at Michael J. Fox from off-camera by the accomplished documentarian Davis Guggenheim, gets at a truth so blunt and self-evident that it doesn’t require an answer. “Why do you want to tell this story right now?“ And … Continue reading →

“Oh Belinda” is a dark and sometimes comic Turkish body-switch comedy, 97 minutes of giving a spoiled, indulgent actress a taste of the “real life” of a character she’s not-very-committed to playing. It’s from a genre Hollywood revisits, occasionally, but … Continue reading →

The venerated Willie Nelson‘s 90th birthday and the celebrated character actress Melinda Dillon‘s recent passing lured me back to “Songwriter,” an ornery and always amusing country music comedy built around Nelson’s story, Nelson’s persona and Nelson’s attitudes about Nashville and … Continue reading →