Monthly Archives: September 2023

It’s a match made in movie heaven, or so one would think. Apply the twee stylings of America’s most precious and airlessly droll filmmaker, Wes Anderson, to the darkly comic fiction of Britain’s frightener of children, Roald Dahl. “The Wonderful … Continue reading →

Some entertaining truck stunts are the chief recommendation of “Overhaul,” a big rig racing, big-rig hijacking thriller from Brazil. This “Around the World With Netflix” outing is a “Fast and Furious” knock-off with dull characters, generic situations and little that … Continue reading →

The timing could not be more perfect for a thriller flipping the current AI debate on its head, an updating of everything “Blade Runner,””A.I.” and “The Terminator” wrestled with in action epic form. “The Creator” is derivative, but inventively so, … Continue reading →

As thrillers go, “Accused” is simplicity itself. It’s just a guy, hunted, identified, harassed, threatened and tracked-down online, trapped in his parents’ house, waiting to be doxed, swatted or worse. The clever touches in the script to this new British … Continue reading →

An outstanding cast overcomes a tendency by the filmmakers to try too hard in wrestling with arcane financial maneouvering in “Dumb Money,” a sort of “Big Short Lite” about the Gamestop stock manipulation war of a couple of years back. … Continue reading →

Classic American small city in the Midwest — more diverse and tolerant than you expect, “safe” to those who move there. And then Donald Trump gets elected and the racist goons come out from under the rocks they’d been hiding … Continue reading →

One early assertion in Nick Broomfield’s new documentary appreciation “The Stones and Brian Jones” will stand out to many a Rolling Stones fan, the idea that “I don’t think many people remember who (Jones) was.” Even someone coming to the … Continue reading →

How’s this for a romantic “meet cute?” He spies her outside the flat of a mate, a tracksuited young woman with bangs to die for and a willingness to sprint and parkour her getaway. He’s a combat soldier, apparently just … Continue reading →

Game recognizes game and there’s no hustle like hustling a hustler in “The Kill Room,” an unlikely all-star comedy about lowdown and dirty contract killing spilling over into the pretentious world of modern art and the “types” who inhabit it. … Continue reading →

While one can appreciate the idea that a talented filmmaker with style and edge would turn his attention to children’s films, and the Texas-based studio he founded to shoot them in, a new Robert Rodriguez “Spy Kids” installment always gives … Continue reading →