Monthly Archives: April 2024

Looks cute. Ish. Neon has this one, which means it opens May 31, closes June 1. Or maybe June 2.

July 26, as surefire a hit as any comic book movie to ever come down the pike hits theaters. Shawn Levy directs our heroes teaming up to “fight a common enemy.” “Superfriends” eat your hearts out.

“We Grown Now,” the third feature of writer-director Minhal Baig, is a sentimental coming-of-age tale, a period piece nostalgic for Chicago’s stigmatized and long-gone Cabrini Green high-rise housing project. That’s just the first way this lovely and intimate film upends … Continue reading →

South African writer-director Brad Katzen puts extra effort into trying to make his stoner comedy “Soweto Blaze” look and sound new and “fresh.” The setting is a post-Apartheid Soweto, more affluent and generally unrest-free, with nicer homes and just a … Continue reading →

Josh Hartnett, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills and some relative of M. Night’s star in this Aug. 9 release. A big pop concert is used to capture a notorious serial killer, who apparently is a fan of the “Gaga-esque” singer, played … Continue reading →

A big question to ponder, thanks to this weekend’s emerging box office figures. What happened to the horror movie audience? Where did they go? For most of this millenium, this has been the most reliable corner of the movie-going public, … Continue reading →

“The Roaring Twenties” is a summation of the classic “gangster movie” era, all rolled up into one swift, sprawling narrative. Produced by THE gangster movie studio, Warner Brothers, released in that pinnacle cinematic year of 1939, we can look back … Continue reading →

The two most beaten-to-death tropes in thrillers? “Serial Killers” and “Hit Men.” Here’s a Richard Linklater “true story” movie about a college prof (Powell of “Anyone But You,” “Top Gun: Maverick”) whom the police use as a play-acting fake “hit-man” … Continue reading →

The blood flows, “Swan Lake” plays on 78 rpm records and “tiny dancer” jokes abound in the revolting and funny “Abigail,” a “dead before dawn” thriller about a kid ballerina kidnap victim who turns out to be a vampire. One … Continue reading →

A driven and heartless tabloid photographer finally grasps why some cultures believe a photograph steals part of your soul in “Disappear Completely,” a cerebral and seriously stylish thriller from Mexico. It’s a tale of supernatural comeuppance for a do-anything-for-the-shot mercenary … Continue reading →