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Daily Archives: August 31, 2023
Movie Preview: Michael Jai White IS “Outlaw Johnny Black”
Didya love “Black Dynamite?” Didya MISS it? Get on that, wouldya? I loved it. And this has “Black Dynamite” blaxploitation Western energy, and we know Mr. White’s gift for deadly deadpan. Michael Jai White wrote, directed and stars in “Outlaw … Continue reading
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Netflixable? A Mexican version of “The Great Seduction (La Gran Seducción)”
Every ten years, like clockwork, we get a new version of “La grande séduction.” And every ten years, I review it and find something charming in this “Northern Exposure” tale of a dying village lying, cheating and manipulating its way … Continue reading
Movie Review: An animated Oddity from China — “Goodbye Monster”
In the spirit of “It’s animated, let’s dub it with English-speaking voices and see if it’ll sell” comes “Goodbye Monster,” a cross-cultural curiosity from China that loses something in translation. The director and co-writer of “Bobby the Hedgehog,” Huang Jianming, … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Lakeith Stanfield goes a Bit Biblical – “The Book of Clarence”
This A24 release is a sort of Jesus-adjacent/not quite Pythonesque account of the revolutionary ferment of 1st century Jerusalem. Omar Sy, Alfred Woodard, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo and James McAvoy are in this January release.
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