Monthly Archives: May 2023

As this review is publishing, Hollywood screenwriters are still on strike, hoping to acquire better compensation for all the platforms their work appears on and unionized protection from all the things that AI-generated writing could take away. Watching a strictly-formula … Continue reading →

Sebastian Maniscalo is a bouncy, animated stand-up comic who uses his Italian-American background in his act. So when he whipped up a screenplay with some of that material as a star vehicle, who’s he get to play the title character … Continue reading →

“Mending the Line” is a simple, sentimental story of combat veterans bonding and healing the wounds of war via fly fishing in Montana. A fine cast doesn’t turn this into any sort of existential epic, as it doesn’t transcend any … Continue reading →

She was a fair villainess in a “Mad Max” movie, sang an underrated James Bond theme. She was subject of a good almost great bio pic starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. Oh, and she was the headliner in the … Continue reading →

Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel and Nastya Golubeva star in the latest from Alice Winocour (“Disorder,” “Proxima,” “Augustine”) film. Yes, this looks very good. June 23.

Tilda co-stars as a New York art maven — maybe a bit of a “monster” — who sponsors the character played by director and star Julio Torres — as he seeks a chance to live the American Dream. Not magical … Continue reading →

The title of the new documentary, “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me,” is almost a play on words. Anybody who remembers Smith in her time — the ’90s and early 2000s — figures “Oh, I KNOW her all right.” … Continue reading →

This looks handsomely mounted, inventively cast.

It was, in hindsight, probably a mistake to try and send off “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also a mistake for Lucasfilm to migrate the entirety of this franchise from Paramount … Continue reading →

Low stakes, low key, low lighting and generally low energy, there’s not much to recommend the Indonesian Around the World with Netflix offering “Arini by Love, inc.” Yes it’s quite short, by Western feature film standards. But not a lot … Continue reading →