Monthly Archives: February 2024

Two hours and forty odd minutes of spice and worms and an all-the-stars cast. Here we go. The eagerly anticipated, long-delayed sequel  opens Mar. 1.

Just when you think Andie MacDowell is ready for bland moms and grandmoms as her career’s third act, along comes Big Cat, her “Queen of Odom County” meth mama in “Red Right Hand.” “We’re gonna stuff and MOUNT these mutha-(you-know-whats)! … Continue reading →

Netflix couldn’t get its hands on the Oscar favorite “Oppenheimer,” so they cleverly chose to put a little money behind “Einstein and the Bomb,” a primer on “The Father of Modern Physics,” Albert Einstein. The physicist was played by Tom … Continue reading →

“Seagrass” is a low-simmer Canadian drama about a couple in trouble and the therapeutic resort “retreat” they visit to see if this marriage can be saved. By focusing on a “mixed” marriage between the daughter of Japanese immigrants and a … Continue reading →

Victor Mature packed up his trench coat and made for Liverpool and the eager arms of Diana Dors for “The Long Haul,” an acrid film noir made with 1950s Columbia Pictures money tied up in Europe. Writer-director Ken Hughes, who’d … Continue reading →

An Oscar winner brings to life a Brooklyn schoolteacher and Representative whose quixotic run for president wasn’t so quixotic after all. The late and great Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges and Terrance Howard also star in this March 22 drama that … Continue reading →

The heavy in “The Bad Shepherd” shows up in a Dodge Challenger, a sports coat and a black turtleneck. And something about him is just…off. It’s not the menacing presence, that cropped hired-killer haircut. Not even the “attempted mustache.” The … Continue reading →

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 →