Monthly Archives: May 2024

Critics use the term “film festival movie” to describe an indie title too narrow in appeal or twee in nature to ever thrive in the big bad world of studio-marketed, wide release cinema. “East Bay” is such a movie, a … Continue reading →

If you have to ask “Which bay,” well this still may be the romantic dramedy for you, because geography lessons as they relate to the Korean, Chinese, India etc diaspora are a bonus in this new release, opening Friday. Could … Continue reading →

They figure this out a tad too late in this horror tale, releasing May 31. Genre thriller, B movie all the way, unknown cast. It still could be fun.

I always got a kick seeing Bernard Hill on the screen.  A late bloomer, he brought gravitas and pathos to his most iconic performances, as the shocked and dumbfounded Captain Smith of the doomed “Titanic,” and as brooding, manipulated King Theoden … Continue reading →

And you and I thought “Dune” was sci fi eye candy of the first order. I do not care that some studio execs were lukewarm on picking this up. I am trying to forget how meditative and obscurant Coppola’s last … Continue reading →

Mr May the Fourth Be With You” suggests the SlDC press corps should be reminding voters of re Nov. Fifth.

The Scott Turow novel made for a pretty good Alan Pakula big screen thriller back in 1990, a rare villainous turn by Harrison Ford, with Greta Scachi and Raul Julia on board. June 4, Apple TV+ gets a deeper dive … Continue reading →

One of the 231 arguments I got into on the outrage engine formerly known as “Twitter” Friday was in interpreting the $3 million or so that Universal’s hyped-all-to-heck “The Fall Guy” earned on its opening night. “Soooo, good not great” … Continue reading →

“Unfrosted” is “The Right Stuff” filtered through the “Bee Movie” and TV-honed shtick of Jerry Seinfeld. Seinfeld’s comic riff on “the breakfast wars” that Post and Kellogg’s fought in his youth is an amusing wallow in boomer nostalgia, a broad … Continue reading →

Not sure of the release date, yet. But this looks solid and speedy. Gabriel Leone has the title role, Brazilian driver Aryton Senna, with Kay Scodelario in the supporting cast.