Daily Archives: February 18, 2024

Matt Dillon channels his inner real-estate agent hustler, with Danny Glover and Kim Quinn also in the cast. This one opens March 8 and looks to be fun.

There are a mountain of tropes you expect your typical disaster movie to deliver. It’s what makes them comfort food films. We know there will be warnings unheeded. All will be tested, and some will wuss out. A relative will … Continue reading →

Every so often in the Spanish-Mexican co-production “Friends Till Death” (Amigos Hasta la Muerte) there’s a new situation, plot twist or character reaction so idiotic and tone-deaf that one is forced to recall how stupid the premise of the picture … Continue reading →

It’s hard, even for people who lived through it, to remember how weird the American cinema was in the years between “Easy Rider” and “Jaws.” Old Hollywood, comprising the studios that were being swallowed into conglomerates as the last of … Continue reading →