Monthly Archives: January 2024

“Cult Killer” is a most peculiar Irish spree-killer thriller about the trauma of abuse, the monstrous sins of the super rich and some bizarre quirks of the Irish criminal justice system that one suspects are just clumsy inventions of the … Continue reading →

I nagged and nagged Bleecker St. to hook me up with an “I S.S.” screener, and “the witness protection program of film distribution” didn’t do so much as pass on the courtesy of a reply of “No.” Lack of faith … Continue reading →

Tom Shales, the witty and biting longtime TV critic for The Washington Post and puckish NPR film critic for a stretch has died. He was 79. And he will be missed, as many of us have missed his cutting, Pulitzer … Continue reading →

Let’s tick off a few names in this all-star B-Western, due out March 1 from Quiver. Oscar winner Whoopi G., Edward James Olmos, Neal McDonough, Cedric the Entertainer, M. Emmet Walsh, D.C. Young Fly, Cam Gigandet, Allen Payne, Mario Van … Continue reading →

Small town corruption, criminal family ties, firearm fetishizing and violence. Andie Mac as a VILLAIN? Ooooo. Feb. 23.

The beautiful young thing takes a moment, sailing a half million dollar sloop past a cliffside villa on coastal Portugal, to turn to the male model next to her, point out that villa and say “That’s my dream.” We don’t … Continue reading →

This fantastical immigration farce written, directed by and starring Torres, finally has a March theatrical and streaming release date. A24 has been sitting on it for a bit, despite rapturous festival reviews. March 1. Check it out.

“The Promised Land” is a “troubles on the farm” thriller, with a lone stoic battling the elements, greedy nobles and the sandy, infertile soil itself in an effort to tame the place and make his fortune. It’s “Places in the … Continue reading →

“Origin” is an important film, a movie that attempts to tie — in intellectual terms — the oppression and enslavement of Africans in the Americas with the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the immobility of India’s “untouchable” “caste” … Continue reading →

With only her fading cell phone and an emergency operator to save her. Jan. 26, we’ll see how this turns out.