Monthly Archives: May 2024

Vikander plays the last and perhaps toughest of the Six Wives of Henry XIII, Kateryn (Catherine) Parr, the one who tempted fate and stood up to the murderous monarch and lived to tell the tale. This summer release is from … Continue reading →

Brian Van Holt also stars in this serial killer thriller. The serial killer might be a “cop?” “The Bone Collector,” they call the man they’re hunting. Gibson plays an FBI Agent/profiler, Curtis Jackson a police chief. This Lionsgate release drops … Continue reading →

Theater actor Keith Kupferer and daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer star in this dramedy about what it takes to create a problem child, and how acting can connect even people who have trouble remembering their lines to their feelings. June 14, … Continue reading →

Maverick movie maker, indie icon, “Pope of Pop Cinema,” sponsor of the careers of the great and near great, Roger Corman made a singular mark on the movies over a career that spanned half a century. Directors Demme and Coppola … Continue reading →

Long before its gambling revival and later slow return to decay, long before Louis Malle’s 1980 drama “Atlantic City,” the historic but forlorn resort city had been emblematic of American ennui, a place of elegaic, baroque nostalgia and decline. The … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

One of the hallmarks of a classic film is the way it impacted the cinema of its day and all the movies on its subject that followed. “Citizen Kane” changed the movies. “Stagecoach” became the benchmark of Westerns. And marriage, … Continue reading →

This comic thriller about a gullible little old lady who gets mixed up in things way beyond her experience of the world co-stars Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg and Fred Hechinger and opens June 21.

It is one of the hoariest conventions in screen thrillers. Round up a bunch of people, some of them armed and dangerous. Park them in a roadside diner, and see what happens. The classic “The Petrified Forest,” based on a … Continue reading →