Monthly Archives: October 2023

Christmas Day, a best seller becomes a George Clooney film starring Joel Edgerton and hits the big screen.

Movies like “Crypto Boy” remind us that no matter how current and “hot” the topic, the label “melodramatic” will never go out of style. Melodramas use exaggerated tropes for plots and lean on character “types” so familiar that the entire … Continue reading →

Shailene, Penelope Cruz, and Italian cars — racing ones. Dec. 25, Neon releases this epic in the States. But I’ve shared the longer, cooler “Sky” Brit trailer, for your motoring, Enzoing pleasure.

This one has an unknown or TV known cast and a whiff of Oscar buzz. Sofia Coppola tells us the story of “Priscilla.”

Titillatingly transgressive and deliriously blasphemous, “Dicks: The Musical” barrels through the “Oh no they didn’ts” fast and furiously, a movie so self-conciously gay, outrageous, rude and gay again that one wonders if only George Takei should be allowed to review … Continue reading →

We could all use something a little sunny of Middle Eastern origin right about now. This autobiographical (“ish”) dramedy by writer-director Maryam Keshavarz fills that need. “The Persian Version” tells us the story of an LGBTQ Iranian-American daughter trying to … Continue reading →

Movies that use our remembered love of the cinema experience of our youth can’t help but be sentimental. From “The Last Picture Show” to “Cinema Paradiso,” “Four Hundred Blows” to “The Fabelmans,” filmmakers have found that their nostalgia for the … Continue reading →

This period piece looks wicked fierce. “Prison is no place for a young lady.”

The class conscious over-achiever, the “destined for greatness” ego, the epic scale and Black Sabbath and Ozzy’s “War Pigs” set the tone. This looks more like a sure thing than the Joaquin? As Napoleon? earlier takes did. Thanksgiving.

Pirates, so far as we know, rarely said “Yarrrrr.” The fact that we think they do, that it’s been a Law of the Sea since “The Simpsons” Sea Captain character was a squinty wee squirt, that there’s a Talk Like … Continue reading →