Monthly Archives: June 2023

What was the last thing you watched on Youtube? I use it to browse for movie trailers, to track down “lost” concert performances, archived moments of history, condensed versions of college basketball games, famous bits of sports history. An obscure … Continue reading →

Now that Netflix has turned its popular “horny teens” melodrama “Through My Window” into a franchise, only one question remains. Will the the filmmakers have the cojones to bust these two lovebirds up? For good? “Through My Window: Across the … Continue reading →

Gabrielle Union tries her hand at “rebranding” after 40 with “The Perfect Find,” a sexed-up rom-com from the director of “Jezebel.” Her instincts are as sharp as ever. But this contrived “Gabrielle Gets Her Groove Back” is very much a … Continue reading →

My favorite graphic in this trailer is “From the Director of Halloween 4.” Can you remember who that was? The John Carpenter films, the Rob Zombie abortive attempts, I remember those. July 21, Mr. Englund leaves behind the hat, striped … Continue reading →

“Millie Lies Low” is a next-level cringe-comedy from Kiwi Country, a New Zealand goof on the Deep Fake lives the savvy among us can live on social media when our real lives are coming off the rails. It begins with … Continue reading →

Sounds like Zach, but does this guy look like Mr. Galifianakis? Quite the transformation for the “Between Two Ferns/Hangover/Baskets” drawling, sarcastic lump. Ms. Banks is spot on as one of the many women screwed over and cheated by the hustling, … Continue reading →

“The Childe” is a flip and darkly amusing comic thriller from Korea, a tale of an impoverished Filipino boxer who laments the fact that he’s never been able to find his Korean father. Until he does find him. It’s violent, … Continue reading →

The magical manga turned anime spectacle “Black Clover” becomes a feature film in “Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King,” an offshoot of the popular TV series that struggles through a sea of characters, contrived factions and sword and sorcery … Continue reading →

Cinephiles congregate around the films of Stanley Kubrick the way history buffs are drawn to Alexander, Hitler and Napoleon. They were all-powerful control freaks who set out to remake the world in an image they saw in their own minds, … Continue reading →

Sofia Coppola hasn’t had a winner in some time. “On the Rocks” was Ok…ish. A pale comparison to “Lost in Translation.” But in telling Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s version of this “fairy tale” romance of the ’60s, and doing it for … Continue reading →