Daily Archives: July 6, 2023

This Paramount release is coming in January, which suggests the studio doesn’t sense “Oscars” in a genre film that has long been an Academy favorite, but that maybe they had some notion it could be a contender. Usually they advertise … Continue reading →

“Employee of the Month” is a dark comedy about a woman away under a soul crushing patriarchy only to have fellows who won’t promote her or plan on stealing her raise if she’s ever given one. And then a Black … Continue reading →

Genre fans can pretty much tell when a Western is “off” just from a glance, and “Dead Man’s Hand” doesn’t pass that “This looks like a West that’s lived in” test. But as this horse opera’s from the director of … Continue reading →

Somebody was “picking up,” killing and dismembering gay men and dumping their body parts across rural New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the early 1990s. And because the victims were gay and the little evidence at hand said they were “pick-up … Continue reading →

No singing. No dancing teapots or candelabras. No Disney. A bit horrific, as the French intended. July 14.