Daily Archives: February 14, 2024

A hitman with brain cancer, “like a curtain coming down.” Unfinished business, threats, and blowback. The usual stuff you face when you murder people for a living. James Marsden and Joanna Kulig are also in the cast of this thriller, … Continue reading →

In the mood for a “Shaolin Soccer/Kung Fu Hustle” martial arts comedy, a Soviet era period piece reminding the world of the Bad Old Days when Russia was even more repressive than it is today? Well, so was I. But … Continue reading →

Kaiju away,  Lizard King and Ape Emperor. Normal sized Rebecca Hall and Dan Bennett also star. Mar. 29.

“Players” is a pre-#MeToo rom-com sitcom masquerading as a feature length comedy. It’s a leering, light but never funny and rarely charming throwback about a group of friends who run “plays” to help each other score one-night stands. They get … Continue reading →

The quiet inscrutability of the movies of Flemish filmmaker Bas Devos can be gleaned from their reviews, filled with vague appreciations and words like “unassuming” and “placidity.” Which is the viewer’s clue that the drama depicted is subtle in the … Continue reading →

Ten years after Harmony Korine gave us the downside of becoming “Spring Breakers,” a UK writer-director has given us the subtitled British version. Writer-director Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex” follows three hedonistic teens on their quest for the … Continue reading →