Monthly Archives: March 2024

Dated, comically corny but heavy-handed, pretty and production-designed to death but oh-so-sound-stagey, “Forbidden Planet” remains a touchstone film in the science fiction canon almost in spite of itself. A lot of its cachet relates to the Cold War zeitgeist that … Continue reading →

Mary Elizabeth Winstead co stars. The rest of the supporting cast isn’t familiar to me. Impressive looking production, based on a best seller, and not one by Ayn Rand. March 29 on Paramount+.

Short but slow, occasionally chilling but never quite scary, “Night Shift” is a straight-up genre thriller that embraces that most ancient and hallowed of horror tropes, “A lone woman menaced in the dark of night.” Poor pacing dooms this debut … Continue reading →

“Code 8” was an “X-Men on a Budget” thriller, reasonably well cast, with hunky mutants (not called “mutants”) and decent taser-finger effects. But it was an ungainly lump of a movie, clumsily trying to switch between criminal mutants, who are … Continue reading →

Courtney Eaton, Thomas Mann, Gina Rodriguez, with Joel McHale as the dad, and cuddly Dave Bautista. Maybe he’s her “sponsor?” Coming soon.

“American Dreamer” doesn’t so much end as peter (Ahem.) out, with a finale that feels like a series of compromises which no one wanted to winnow down. But if you skip the movie leading up to that, you’ll be missing … Continue reading →

This looks cute and funny and smart and useful to kids, as indeed “Inside Out” was. Now the kid’s a little older. June 14, “Anxiety” and “the Sar Chasm” and “suppressed emotions” enter the picture for this Pixar sequel.

There are echoes of a lot of “Making it in Nashville” tales in “The Neon Highway” — “Crazy Heart,” “Honky Tonk Man” and “Tender Mercies” among them. There’s a singer with a song he can thinks can change his life, … Continue reading →

“Saturday Night Live” alumnus Julio Torres makes his feature filmmaking debut with “Problemista,” a twee and willfully eccentric comedy about a foreign kid with Big Dreams he’s brought to the Big City. It’s quirky throughout, funny and so oddly obscurant … Continue reading →

Orlandoans know, if you don’t visit Disney Springs every three months, you have no idea what you’ll be dealing with traffic control wise, or where what you’re looking for is now tucked behind. AMC 24, lots of security just getting … Continue reading →