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Daily Archives: June 9, 2023
Netflixable? Colombian couple learns “To Love is to Grow”
A couple of things come to mind after watching writer-director Harold Trompetero’s “To Love is to Grow,” a Netflix comedy titled “Amar es Madurar” (Love is to Mature) when it premiered in South America. The cleverest conceit in this rom-com … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: A raunchy throwback High School Party Comedy — “The Crusades”
This can’t have cost a lot, but there’s an anarchic energy to this trailer that suggests it could suck, or find its way to a few outlandish laughs. Two high schools forced to merge, a “last weekend,” sex, drugs, brawls … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A poetic Med Student falls hard for those “Montréal Girls”
“Montréal Girls” is a sharply-observed, sympathetically-scripted coming-of-age story about a Middle Eastern med student who has his horizons broadened and his heart broken by the title characters, the gorgeous bilingual young women of the capital of French Canada. What director … Continue reading
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Netflixable? New Parents experience the horrors of “The Wonder Weeks”
Every generation in the history of the Western World figures it’s the one that has mastered bringing up babies, that the difficulties it tackles are “new” and not as old as time itself. And there’s always a raft of movies … Continue reading
Movie Review: Failure is “Elemental” in this Pixar Pic
Pixar is as entitled to a swing and a miss as any studio. But the lovely-looking miscalculation that is “Elemental” stands out on the CGI animation house’s resume as a rare swing-and-almost-completely-miss. It’s sentimental slop with a shiny, polished sheen. … Continue reading