Monthly Archives: March 2024

Last year saw a Bille August mini-series based on the famous Alexandre Dumas novel. Jeremy Irons was featured in that. This new theatrical take stars Pierre Niney of the Yves St. Laurent biopic of a few years back as Le … Continue reading →

Alec Guinness brings a deft twinkle to G.K. Chesterton’s venerable saintly sleuth “Father Brown” in his only big screen outing as the Catholic crime solver, titled “The Detective” when it showed in the United States. And while I can’t say … Continue reading →

“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 →

Will the pent-up demand for fresh kid-friendly animation blow up the box office next weekend? Will families drive the take of this long-running franhise past a second weekend of “Dune Part 2?” Heaven knows theater managers are hoping so. This … Continue reading →

A blockbuster-sized Thursday night preview and furious Friday ensured that “Dune Part 2” will open well over $70 million, perhaps even reaching the $80 million mark, according to Deadline.com. UPDATED — $81.5, per Box Office Pro Sunday afternoon estimate. Social … Continue reading →

Iantha Richardson, Nicole Richie, Jermaine Fowler and June Squibb (as the about-to-die babysitter) star in this version of a 1991 film that starred Christina Applegate. Perhaps the trailer will have an actual laugh in it, as the teaser doth not. … Continue reading →