Monthly Archives: September 2023

Damn, Elvis is riding with Bane! Jodie Comer, Michael Shannon and Boyd Holbrook also star in this saga about the ride of a midwestern biker gang, from the ’60s onward. Writer/director Jeff Nichols did the Matthew McConaughey indie “Mud,” the … Continue reading →

The opening act of “Wolf Pack” is disorienting, bracing and action-packed enough to give one hope we’re heading into a solid action thriller/mystery. Then somebody tosses sand into the gears and this B-movie grinds to a halt in the middle … Continue reading →

An IRA hit man is hunted by a relative (Kerry Condon) of someone he killed. This period piece from “The Troubles” has Ciaran Hinds and Colm Meaney and all of my attention, as it looks a step above the films … Continue reading →

Can a collegiate puppeteer find love as an au pair in Paris? That’s the not-quite-burning question at the heart of “Goodbye, Petrushka,” an amiable but aimless romantic comedy that struggles to tie puppetry, filmmaking and figure skating together in a … Continue reading →

The plot of “Love Again” is so over-familiar I stopped streaming it not once but thrice to make certain I’d never seen it before. It’s so forumulaic that I hope writer-director James C. Strouse is blushing if he’s walking a … Continue reading →

Not sure how this is being released, seeing as how it’s only 31 minutes long. But the trailer is now in theaters, so we’ll see.

This features connections to the original film, and amped-up frights. David Gordon Green seems trapped in horror these days. Pity. Oct. 6, “The Believer” hits theaters.

The jocks are insecure drama queens who parade through school all day in their pads and uniforms and the girls who aren’t cheerleaders form their own “fight club” to remedy the lack of “female solidarity” in “Bottoms,” an amusingly outrageous … Continue reading →

These renditions of the classic, most-filmed tales from Dame Agatha’s canon feature shimmering production values, all-star casts and Sir Kenneth Branagh vamping up Hercule Poirot amongst them and expertly-handling the murder-mystery directing chores. Newly-crowned Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, … Continue reading →

“No More Bets” is a heavy-handed Chinese thriller about the evils of gambling, the perils of emigrating and the righteousness of Chinese policing as it pertains to international online scamming conspiracies. Overlong and somewhat lumbering, it’s sometimes entertainingly suspenseful, built … Continue reading →