Monthly Archives: January 2024

This Polish entry for Best International Feature Oscar contention is from the creators of the animated classic “Loving Vincent.” The filmmakers are going to some pains in not allowing this filmed/then-animated movie to be described as “rotoscoped,” as they employed … Continue reading →

A chef faces a diner who’d like to order…off the menu. Looks like this one starts with the cheese plate, and serves another and another. “Alice and the Vampire Queen” streams, or bleeds out, Feb. 13.

Power is an aspiring video journalist, Jacob Tremblay is the story she stumbles among that she might love to regret, and Ross is the journalist teaching her student to swing for the fences. “Cold Copy” was a film festival darling … Continue reading →

You get your hands on a pre-tween ballerina who comes from money, you figure “What can go wrong?” Giancarlo Esposito, Kathryn Newton and Dan Stevens are among the familiar faces in this horror comedy about who is “trapped in here” … Continue reading →

One gets the impression that the Brits regard Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy,” as a play, a film, a TV movie or radio drama, with the same warm esteem that Americans regard Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” One … Continue reading →

We’ve all had that fantasy. Some Russian creep or organized group of creeps zaps your computer or that of a loved-one. They try and blackmail you to get control of it back, or get into your data and start looting … Continue reading →

“Miss Shampoo” is an unhappy blend of goofy comedy, wish-fulfillment fantasy and bloody violence, a lumbering farce that never quite finds the sweet spot in any of the genres it mashes up. It opens with violence, ends with violence, and … Continue reading →

This Berlin Film Fest darling looks intriguing — immigrant joins Foreign Legion, but what he gets mixed up in down in Africa makes his question his service and who is doing what to whom. Feb. 2.

There’s a lot to sort out and take in from this trailer to what’s obviously a B/C movie thriller, coming from Quiver. Some recognizable faces — Laurie Fortier of “The Walking Dead,” “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday” and decades … Continue reading →

Those “Mean Girls” are back, still lording over North Shore High, still cruel and cutting as only high school girls can be, still trying to make “fetch” a thing. Tina Fey‘s greatest girl-on-girl teen take-down returns in triumph, a sometimes … Continue reading →