Monthly Archives: June 2023

“Honey, Baby Mine” is a not-really-a memoir that reads like a podcast someone passed along to a printer. That’s kind of what you get when turn a long series of transcibed conversations into a book. And that’s what Oscar-winner Laura … Continue reading →

Gal G is a secret agent chasing a master hacker endangering global stability in this Aug. 11 Netflix actioner. Jamie Dornan also stars. Looks slick.

Michihito Fujii’s “Village,” inexplicably retitled “The Village” by some typist at Netflix, is a murky melodrama with Noh Theatre and other distinctly Japanese cultural traditions and attitudes folded into what plays as a slow-simmer thriller. The untranslated Noh scenes and … Continue reading →

“I’ll Show You Mine” is a rather tedious two-hander in which a non-fiction author interviews her once-famous model and ground-breaking “pansexual” nephew for her next book. As drinks are sipped and awkward truths are brought to light, we’re reminded of … Continue reading →

Were they a big deal? Drawing a blank on that era. June 30, a slow-rolling release over the sleepy prairie states and their cities.

There was never anything subtle about Luc Besson’s “Leon: The Professional,” titled “Leon” overseas but “The Professional” here, and retitled both as it arrived on video. A minimalist thriller with maximalist, pull out the stops exess, it’s an opera of … Continue reading →

There’s a properly extravagant and epic-length long-take showacase moment in the first act of “Extraction 2,” a 21 minutes/no edits first-person-shooter video game-style plunge through a prison break that takes the viewer and our hero Rake (Chris Hemsworth) from tunnels … Continue reading →

It’s not everything you could have hoped for, but for a fan, the final Indiana Jones movie tips the scale as “not bad, not bad at all.” A film with exhillerating action beats, well-cast villains, fan service in the form … Continue reading →

Oviedo, Florida can sample a different sort of Holocaust story in this fictional tale of a Jewish teen so deep into the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd and the promise of the limelight that she minimizes … Continue reading →

The exciting, clever bang-up finale to “Maggie Moore(s)” rather softens the disappointing blow that this off-key dark comedy’s first 90 minutes have delivered. I’m not saying that makes the film worth watching, but it makes this Jon Hamm and Tina … Continue reading →