Daily Archives: September 16, 2023

Yorgos Lanthimos strikes again? “A woman plotting her course to freedom!”

Jane Fonda wasn’t the star attraction, or even the prettiest actress on the screen in her third film, 1962’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” The regal French beauty Capucine was higher billed. The versatile Anne Baxter and earth mama Joanna … Continue reading →

It sometimes seemed, in the long years of trials, deflections and evasions that comprised the last days of Chile’s murderous looter and dictator Augusto Pinochet, that the monstrous bastard would never die. A “normalized” and “accepted” despot with a tidier … Continue reading →

It’s hard to work up much enthusiasm — or any at all — for “Little Jar,” a limited-cast/couple of settings COVID comedy that comes too late to cash in on “Look at the movie they got made despite restrictions” and … Continue reading →

The standard rule of thumb for films that appeal to a more mature audience is that it takes that crowd a few weeks to get around to catching up with a new movie aimed their way. Thursday night “previews” have … Continue reading →

Reshoots, delays, less Amber Heard, maybe no Aquaman at all in James Gunn’s vision for DC comics movies down the road. In any event, here’s the sequel now slated for a few days just before Christmas.

This Rodrigo Moreno thriller opens in late October in New York and LA and stars Daniel Eliás and Esteban Bigliardi as an Argentinian bank employee who does the crime and confesses to do the time, and the pal he stashes … Continue reading →