Monthly Archives: June 2023

The gang’s back in business next month, or so they think.

Strange and bizarre and “Lobster” “Dogtooth” Yorgos Lanthimos weird. Sept. 8.

It’s a tad ponderous, a talkative, exposition-laden tale whose jokes don’t often land. It’s derivative in many obvious ways, as all film fantasies inevitably are. But “The Secret Kingdom” is ambitious, a tantalizing piece of kid-friendly eye-candy from Down Under … Continue reading →

Science fiction icon H.G Wells’ oft-filmed 1897 novel gets a fresh, gloomy Victorian Gothic adaptation in “Fear the Invisible Man,” a film that is faithful to the style, themes and spirit of the novel without literally being the exact same … Continue reading →

Actress turned director Eva Longoria’s “Flamin’ Hot” is a lightly charming love letter to Mexican-American pluck, resolve and grace in the face of every obstacle that one’s adoptive country throws in your path. Longoria and screenwriters Lewis Colick and Linda … Continue reading →

“The Tank” is a polished period piece thriller set in the 1970s Pacific Northwest, but filmed in New Zealand, with a mostly-Kiwi cast-and-crew. Because nothing looks like the undeveloped past of Washington and Oregon’s coasts like the rocky shores of … Continue reading →

Sly, Statham and Dolph are back, with a few new “recruits” joining the ranks of a movie I can’t recall anyone asking for. But sure, another “Expendables?” I was under the impression the movie biz had written off Fitty. He’s … Continue reading →

Crowd-funded and Swiss-made, “Mad Heidi” is a straight-up old school “grindhouse” splatter film, a blood-in-the-lens, naked babes in the prison shower frolic through Swiss stereotypes and Swiss cheese Nazis. And if it was as good as its fundraising pitch and … Continue reading →

First off, know this about “Passport,” a Nigerian “comedy” about a stolen passport and the neighborhood hustlers who must be cajoled into giving it back. Not all Nigerian films are this bad. If like me you like to travel Around … Continue reading →

Ezra Miller turns out to be every bit as on-the-spectrum manic, antsy, and impulsive as you’d expect in a stand-alone film about “The Flash.” He gives us a comic book character with issues and an agenda, two distinct and noticably … Continue reading →