Daily Archives: April 16, 2024

Here we are and here we go. Review to post by 11 Eastern if I’m lucky. (The review is now live, posted here).

“Deadly Justice” is a C or D movie thriller so badly scripted, amateurishly-acted and stridently-scored that you wonder where the money to make it, or make it all better, went? It was shot and set in Biloxi. Didn’t the state … Continue reading →

Penn’s not box office any more, if he ever was. Wildly unpopular with a certain political fringe, not all that popular with any other political fringes. Dakota Johnson is a much-abused and rightly-so nepo baby star without a whole lot … Continue reading →

Aaron Eckhart throws himself and some mid-fight grace notes at “The Bricklayer,” another CIA agent brought back in to “fix” a screw-up run amok within and without The Agency. It’s not “The Beekeeper,” but Eckhart commits to the part and … Continue reading →

“Sting” is a solid no-big-stars B-picture thriller about an itsy bitsy spider who gets chatty, then awfully big as it tears through a New York apartment building in the middle of a blizzard. Naturally, it was filmed in Australia. The … Continue reading →

With upcoming release slates rendered lean due to last year’s long film biz strikes, this could be a moment for second tier studios like Lionsgate to shine, giving theaters something to show, making more money than they might have from … Continue reading →