Monthly Archives: March 2024

Lindsay Lohan’s not exactly an old pro at rom-coms. But as she’s a producer on her new film, one would have hoped she’d do the homework that would tell her how they function, what pay-offs they need to deliver and … Continue reading →

A slap happy farce from the former “Star Trek” star, playing a pool cleaner with private detective and Hollywood screenplay dreams. DeWanda Wise, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Ortiz and Ray Wise are also in the cast. Frenetic trailer, a couple … Continue reading →

Years of lobbying against digital dogs and cats in live action movies go out the door when one takes in the French-Canadian farce “Cat and Dog,” with its many slapstick animal-abusing moments. I mean, thank heavens “No (digitally animated) dogs … Continue reading →

The week-old release “Kung Fu Panda 4” is falling off faster than the blockbuster of the year “Dune Part 2,” and that’s going to make this weekend’s box office race hard to handicap until Saturday’s receipts are counted. Deadline.com is … Continue reading →

Oscar winners Whoopi Goldberg and Robert DeNiro, along with Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga and Rainn Wilson signed on for this summer release, directed by Tony Goldwyn. William A. Fitzgerald has the title role. We know a lot more about autism … Continue reading →

The French thriller “The Animal Kingdom” is set in an alternate reality where humans are starting to transition into animals of various species — snakes and lizards to walruses and birds. The authorities treat this as a contagion that must … Continue reading →

The peak years for Catherine Deneuve, the great French beauty and darling of the Great Directors of her youth, stretched from Demy’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and “The Young Girls of Rochefort” to Polanski’s “Repulsion” through Buñuel’s “Bell de Jour,” … Continue reading →

“Exhuma” is a somewhat lumbering South Korean thriller about ghosts, how they can disturb the tranquility of the families that descended from them and the professionals hired to help remedy such problems and remove such troublesome spirits. It’s got lighter … Continue reading →

“The Art of Love” is an almost-flippant Turkish take on “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Never quite funny, and nowhere near amusing enough to be a caper comedy, with stakes that are entirely too low to be an effective heist picture, … Continue reading →

A music lover tries to save a doomed lover via the music of their affair. Then again, maybe this new music lover could distract her from that time-traveling music mission. Searchlight and Hulu have this one. April 12.