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Daily Archives: May 11, 2024
Netflixable? “The Courier” Glibly Skips by a Scandal for a tale of High End Spanish Money-Laundering
Slick, sex-uped and maddeningly-shallow, “The Courier” is another variation on the “get rich quick via money-laundering” formula based on real events that roiled Europe and Spain in the early 2000s. We learn precious little about the backers, reasons (real estate … Continue reading
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BOX OFFICE: “Apes” Rule, “Fall Guy” falls off, “Challengers” hang around
The lesson for Universal Studios could not be more stark. Twentieth Century (Disney) makes bank, yet again, with the middling, pointless and CGI-dominated tenth movie in the ever-rebooted/even-became-a-TV-series “Planet of the Apes” franchise. While “The Fall Guy,” a funny, well-cast … Continue reading
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