Monthly Archives: June 2023

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 →

“Dark Forces (Fuego Negro)” is a bloody-minded, sex-scene-stuffed Mexican film noir that that staggers along like a George A. Romero zombie. That’s rich, because “zombies” aren’t the creatures of mythic horror this Bernardo Arellano thriller has in mind. Atmospheric, with … Continue reading →

One does not know what took so long for drag performer/singer, writer and activist Taylor’s Mac‘s Olympian undertaking, “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” to make it to TV and the masses. An epic 246 song show, toured as … Continue reading →