Daily Archives: March 4, 2024

“My Name is Loh Kiwan” is a downbeat Korean melodrama peppered with violence and victimhood and adorned with too many trials and tribulations for its own good. Writer-director Kim Hui-jin stuffs a TV soap opera season’s worth of over-the-top challenges, … Continue reading →

Memorial Day Weekend, Sony Animation takes another shot at turning “Garfield” in a franchise. Samuel L., Chris Pratt, Cecily Strong, Ving Rhames, Hannah Waddington, Nicholas Hoult, Bowen Yang (of course) and Snoop Dogg? Whose idea was it to cast Bowen … Continue reading →

“Outlaw Posse” is a scruffy, old school blaxploitation Western from Mario Van Peebles, son of iconic African American filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, who put the “Black” in blaxploitation, back in his “Sweet Sweetback’s BADASSSSS Song” day. Mario V. P. charmed … Continue reading →

“Unfriending” is a deadpan Canadian comedy with “film festival darling” engrained in its DNA. It doesn’t quite come off, but being dark and droll, it might play to the right audience, a forgiving film fest crowd willing to ignore how … Continue reading →

The coming-of-age teen sex comedy genre goes younger and supposedly edgier in “Snack Shack,” which tells the story of randy Xennials in 1991 Nebraska City, Nebraska. The follow-up to writer-director Adam Rehmeier’s quirkier “Dinner in America” is a transgressive, tedious … Continue reading →