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Daily Archives: April 24, 2024
Movie Preview: Dakota Fanning joins Shyamalan Spawn in the woods with “The Watchers”
Horror movies are, as John Carpenter once broke down for me, a teachable series of practical effects and learnable basic knowledge of human psychology. So sure, somebody who is the child of a famous director who is still a big … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Queen Bees” have aged out of their Mean Girls streak — almost
The chief appeal of a “Calendar Girls,” “Poms,” or “80 for Brady” movie is the chance to see venerable and venerated film stars taking themselves on a trip down memory lane, and us along with them. Such movies are an … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Gay and finding your way out of Rural Indiana — “Blueberry”
“Blueberry” is a drab indie “film festival movie” about a young gay woman who meets someone who might get her out of BFE, Indiana, and the conflict this creates with her sister, who sees the newcomer as a bad influence. … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Jennifer Lopez is agent “Atlas” at war with a world-killing AI
Sterling Brown and Mark Strong are among the co-stars in this topical, FX-laden but possibly empty-headed actioner slated for release on Netflix May 24. It looks slick and really dumb.
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Movie Review: Revenge is a dish best-served bloody –“Boy Kills World”
“Boy Kills World” is a gonzo, video-game-violent/splatter-film-bloody “Hunger Games” for fanboys. It is “Oldboy” meets “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” pandering and slaughtering in equal measure, a movie with jaunty, genre-spoofing possibilities that descend into into lethargy and wind-up in … Continue reading
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