Monthly Archives: November 2023

How good was Joss Ackland at being bad? Most of us first noticed this British character actor in a couple of late ’80s films in which he stepped into the foreground — “White Mischief” and “Lethal Weapon 2.” As one … Continue reading →

Return we now to the subgenre of Gothic terror known as “folk horror,” a tale that is the spiritual kin of “The Wicker Man,” “Midsomer” and “The Blair Witch Project.” “Lord of Misrule” is set in a quaint English country … Continue reading →

Easy to see and hear Owen in this role, an iconic gumshoe transplanted to Europe after making his name in the States. The folks who made “The Queen’s Gambit” cooked this up, so there’s promise in the premise. Jan 14 … Continue reading →

Decades of “Munsters” reruns may have become Yvonne De Carlo‘s legacy in the public eye. But there was a lot more to her and her career than the comic timing and exotic, too-beautiful-for-this-lot pigeon-hole that television stuffed her into. They … Continue reading →

David Oyelowo and Bill Nighy are the co-stars in this January Amazon release about the hottie you met and married (?) who turns out to be an assassin. Kinda seems like a “Bazinga” to me. Jan. 12, believe it or … Continue reading →

No, I didn’t have the breakout star of “Boogie Nights” and the director of “Siesta” and the original “Pet Sematary” films on my “Most likely to make a holiday movie this Christmas” predictions list. But here we are, with a … Continue reading →

An eight year absence from the screen, a set of new stars and a confused, stumbling “leading up to” prequel narrative didn’t dampen enthusiasm for those “children killing children” “Hunger Games.” Much. Reviews were mixed, with some critics plainly hitting … Continue reading →

“The Blind Swordsman” is figure of movie and myth who first came to life as a hero of a post-World War II novel by Japanese writer Kan Shimozawa. That sightless samurai popped up in Japanese films, with variations turning up … Continue reading →

Walt Disney famously said for us to “remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” But as omnipresent as mouse ears are in Disney’s identity, it is the sentimental “When you wish upon a star” that … Continue reading →

Sony works works works its Spidery side of the Marvel street, adding this to “Spider-Man” in all its incarnations (and “Venom” too). A paramedic who starts “having visions” and takes a turn to the superheroic. I like the way the … Continue reading →