Monthly Archives: November 2023

A film festival favorite from Searchlight pictures, this dreamy drama is about meeting someone, and having that trigger what appears to be a reconnection with parents who died years before but are back — frozen in time. This trailer makes … Continue reading →

“Forever” is a Swedish coming-of-age-in-soccer drama that breaks just enough of the conventions of the genre to feel new and novel. There is a third act “Big Game,” but is takes a back seat to the human drama playing out … Continue reading →

Before you write a script or even a plot, you have a “conceit,” and before you can make your movie, you have a “pitch.” And it’d better be a killer. That’s all “It’s a Wonderful Knife” is — a conceit … Continue reading →

So he needs the guy’s ex wife to ID…the rest of the body so’s he can get paid? A hitman that long in the tooth is going to forget things. Not sure if and when this will see the light … Continue reading →

Is it just me, or are all these CGI animated kids’ films starting to look alike? The style, the color palette, the look of the characters, it’s a lot harder to tell Disney from Dreamworks from Illumination from Sony from … Continue reading →

No contest, right? An Iron Man (ish?) competition involving a hyper-competitive guy and his team picks up a stray along the way. Hankies come out all over. Bear Grylls cameo to follow.

There’s a corner of America that likes its murder mysteries convoluted and its detectives gathering all the suspects in a drawing room to go through them, one by one, in unmasking “The Real Killer.” But they probably wouldn’t appreciate the … Continue reading →

This stylish looking British psychological thriller looks to have been filmed in the Med, and stars Natalia Cordova-BuckleyR, yan Kwanten and Virginia Madsen. Dec. 8, “The Portrait” is unveiled.

Eli Roth’s back to take more perverse pleasure in pain — his movies’ “victims,” and that of viewers laughing at the gore but grimacing at the cruelty — with a holiday treat titled “Thanksgiving.” At least with “Thanksgiving,” a splatter … Continue reading →

The world of “The Hunger Games” comes rushing back to you — well, sauntering back to you — not that long into “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” It’s been eight years since the “original trilogy” wrapped … Continue reading →