Monthly Archives: June 2024

“Daddio” is a cinematic seminar in the value of movie stars. A variation of the “Night on Earth/Taxicab Confessions” formula, it puts Sean Penn behind the wheel and lets Dakota Johnson hold her own with him from the back seat. … Continue reading →

Jason S. plays a temple cantor who has kind of lost the plot, when lo and behold, his former music teacher (Carol Kane) shows up and wants Bat Mitzvah classes. Oy? Don’t forget the “vey.” Kane and Schwartzman have made … Continue reading →

Sweet and ever-so-slight, “Confessions of a Wandering Saint” is a dark, deadpan Argentine comedy about a “miracle” and the faithful Catholic who’s willing to risk her fast pass to heaven to “prove it.” The debut feature of Argentine filmmaker Tomás … Continue reading →

A sweet turn by Amy Smart, Judd Hirsch trotting out another version of “curmudgeonly” and a sensitive take on childhood anxiety are what the kids baseball dramedy “Rally Caps” has to recommend it. It’s a limp noodle of a “family” … Continue reading →

The writer-director who gave us “The Lighthouse,” “The Northman” and “The Witch” offers his take on a vampire classic — “Nosferatu.” Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgård, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe star in the … Continue reading →

Jessica Alba just sold off her health and beauty company for a nice piece of change. It wasn’t that long ago that the “Dark Angel” alumna finished a run on her latest series, “L.A.’s Finest.” So it’s not like she … Continue reading →

No household names star in this upcoming disaster movie. And the trailer doesn’t show everybody as alarmed as they might be as the Earth opens up in the middle of the continent, the famed overdue-for-a-quake New Madrid fault that changed … Continue reading →

“Young Winston,” an epic of the “Patton” and “A Bridge Too Far” era, was a big hit in 1972 Britain, where nostalgia for “The War” was nearing its peak and the memory of the titanic figure, Winston Churchill, was still … Continue reading →

This “true story” caper comedy set on the rough side of the music business in Northern Ireland is sung and joked mostly in Gaelic, the Mother Tongue of Ireland. Fassbender trying comedy again? This looks daft enough to play, and … Continue reading →

I have little memory of watching the Italian “empty nest” comedy “The Price of Family.” I reviewed it, but it left little to no impression at all. I dare say in a week or two I won’t remember much about … Continue reading →