Monthly Archives: July 2023

It plays like a rowdy, raunchy 1970s Blaxploitation period piece. Because aside from cell phones, what’s changed in “tha’hood” in the past 50 years? Gang-bangers, pimps and “ho’s” riding around in Yank tank Buicks, aimless souls pumping iron, hitting the … Continue reading →

“Cobweb” is a horror genre piece as simple and to the point as its title. A child hears noises in the walls of the old house where he lives, and in trying to raise the alarm with his parents, comes … Continue reading →

Regal Waterford Lakes, Orlando, 833pm Thursday July 21. “Barbie” fans represent. My review is here. The movie, as of Friday AM, is on track to $100 million+ on its opening weekend, just in North America. Huge overseas, too.

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” is a movie of its moment, a brilliant bauble of female empowerment, scathing satire and genuine wit. That “war on women” that is eating up so much of America’s bandwidth right now takes it in the gonads … Continue reading →

The “Beanie Baby Craze” of the 1990s silenced anybody who ever had a laugh when learning of the “Tulip Fever” that gripped Dutch collectors, investors and ordinary folk in 17th century Holland. And no movie about the Clinton Era plush … Continue reading →

For some reason, a Childersburg Alabama rescue squad member told a local TV affiliate in BFE, Alabama that a “TikTok Challenge” involving teens leaping off the back of speeding motorboats has killed four kids this year and that this was … Continue reading →

Winter Park, Florida ready for a (preview) fright because they know if it’s an A24 horror release, it’ll be smart. (Updated: A link to my review of “Talk to Me” is here.)

A good punch in the gut to end July, right? A24 knows horror. This one opens July 28.

John Sweet’s not a name you think of when you remember the great actors, or even the lesser ones of Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was a Minneapolis schoolteacher turned sergeant in the Army, training in Great Britain to liberate Europe … Continue reading →

Christopher Nolan turns his considerable talents back to World War II era history for “Oppenheimer,” a biography that plumbs the genius, foibles and moral and ethical dilemmas faced by “The Father of the Atomic Bomb.” It’s an all-star revisiting of … Continue reading →