Monthly Archives: September 2023

Vampires, lest we forget, are very old. How old? Grandma’s Consumer Cellular flip-phone-using old. Some of them could stand to do some situps. And given their druthers, when they “vant to drink your blood,” they’d prefer to serve it to … Continue reading →

The time-honored “summer camp” kids comedy earns a most innocuous treatment with “Camp Hideout,” an almost faith-based take on a subject that “Meatballs,” “Ernest Goes to Camp,” an “Addams Family” movie and many others got to before it, almost always … Continue reading →

With many distributors scaling back promotion and previews for their movies, and refusing to pay their actors and writers, this appears to be the new movie reviewing paradigm. Thursday afternoon I’m catching a Roadside Attractions release that wasn’t announced, pitched … Continue reading →

Netflix has this star spangled adaptation of “several” Edgar Allan Poe stories, slated for eight episodes. Love that Carla Gugino. Willa Fitzgerald, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish, Zach Gilford, T’Nai Miller, Henry Thomas, Mark Hamill, Rahul Kohli, Mary McDonnell and Kate … Continue reading →

The idea isn’t the worst Netflix ever had. Crank out an “Into the Woods” and “Wicked” riff on fairytales teaming up Red Riding Hood and Cinderella and give it a mystery for them to solve. Call it “Once Upon a … Continue reading →

Rainn Wilson, Beau Bridges and Kevin Sussman are in the supporting cast of this series adaptation of the feminist novel by Bonnie Garmus. Looks very good. October 13, this premieres on Apple TV+.

BAFTA winner Monica Dolan stars in this amiable, moving road picture/”artist in the moment of discovery/re-discovery” drama from director Carol Morley of “The Falling.”

You glance at the credits to “Bitter Victory,” a World War II in the Libyan desert thriller starring Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman, Nigel Green and Christopher Lee, the only true “war” movie of director and co-writer Nicholas Ray, … Continue reading →

This Sept. 29 release, about a literal “lady killer,” is from Soi Cheang, and looks like a step up from his many “Monkey King” thrillers.

This Sept. 29 release (streaming on Shudder) is from the screenwriter of “The Tunnel” and could be a subtitled scare, for those who don’t mind reading the reactions in Norwegian.