Monthly Archives: March 2024

Actress, artist, model and ’60s “It” girl, the most famous guise Anita Pallenberg appeared under was “muse.” She was linked to a lot of people who considered her thus, as she came to embody the mod, swinging “La Dolce Vita” … Continue reading →

The cast is good, the action beats solid and the explosions are epic in the latest French updating of an all-time action classic, “The Wages of Fear.” But almost everything else about this version ranges from “inferior” to “clumsy” to … Continue reading →

If there’s one myth that dies the hardest about the comedian, writer, dancer, banjo virtuoso and art collector Steve Martin, it’s that he’s “unknowable.” Shy, “very private,” soft-spoken and guarded in interviews that aren’t chat show performances, he’s let that … Continue reading →

Listen to the sound effects — all the bones and cartilege cracking and crunching and what not. Jean-Claude Van Damme is entirely too old for this s—. Perhaps there’s money in pairing him up with Liam Neeson at some point … Continue reading →

The preview to this June 7 release is enough to make one ponder just what ends a career, or signals the beginning of the end. Martin Lawrence was old news 20 years ago, infamous on my side of the industry … Continue reading →

One shouldn’t read too much into the turnout of a late matinee “preview” showing of a potential weekend blockbuster. But if a movie is showing to roughly three times as many folks as I normally see at a Thursday afternoon … Continue reading →

The nonsense slides by like lava on a wintry day in “Godzilla v. Kong: The New Empire,” a cheerfully stupid “kaiju” movie that isn’t as interesting as the licensing agreements that put a Hollywood creature feature creation on screen with … Continue reading →

Cedric? Maria Bakalova? Christian Slater? Dan Levy? Bill Burr? Fred Armisen? James Marsden? HUGH GRANT? Jerry Seinfeld directs this giggling star farce about the breakfast wars between Post, Kellog’s and um, “Quaker Oats,” which premieres on Netflix May 3. The … Continue reading →

Vicky Krieps co-stars in this French-flavored Civil War-era vengeance Western. Garrett Dillahunt and Danny Huston also star in this May 31 release. Looks gritty, and has lots of film fest hype juicing it.

Maverick filmmaker Nicholas Ray was well on his way to “Johnny Guitar,” “Rebel Without A Cause”and “Bigger than Life” when he followed up his big Bogart break “A Lonely Place” with “On Dangerous Ground,” an intense troubled cop thriller with … Continue reading →