Monthly Archives: June 2024

This week “Inside Out 2” set an all-time Juneteenth box office record, some $30 million, raced by “Dune 2” to become the biggest blockbuster of 2024 ($340 million+ by weekend’s end) and is on a pace to clear another $95 … Continue reading →

A fine finish and some good performances recommend “Fancy Dance,” a melodramatic mystery with coming-of-age touches set in and around the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation of Oklahoma. It’s a solid star vehicle for Lily Gladstone, who has spun her “Killers of the … Continue reading →

A summer picture with old broads getting outta hand? Gotta love the cast and the pitch. Gotta be better than “Summer Camp.”

A stylish bit of A-24 terror with Brandy Norwood squaring off against Kathryn Hunter, who played one of the witches in the Denzel/McDormand/Coen “Macbeth.” Sept. 6.

“The Bikeriders” is hands-down the most pointless biker movie ever made. With a narrative limping along on one training wheel, it mopes in an inane circle through the middle era of modern biker gangs, between the post-war “Wild One” birth … Continue reading →

“Ghostlight” is an intimate, moving indie drama about the transformative power of art and the mental health benefits of the theatre. An “actors’ picture” in the purest sense of the phrase, its players take us on an emotional journey that … Continue reading →

The Austrian thriller “The Devil’s Bath” is a patient, pitiless descent into madness, belief and the helplessness of a time and place where life was, as the philosopher put it, “nasty, brutish and short.” Based on research of historical case … Continue reading →

Peyton List and Brianna Middleton are among the embattled offspring. “Coming soon?”

“OutStanding: A Comedy Revolution” is one of the most informative and certainly the most entertaining historical documentaries about LGBTQ history on offer this Pride Month. Built around Netflix’s earlier 2022 “Stand Out:An LGBTQ+ Celebration,” featuring legions of “out” gay entertainers … Continue reading →

The setting is striking and ancient, with the unmistakable Bridges of Edinburgh used as a backdrop time and time again. There’s no real reason for the Italian pan-national thriller “It’s Not Over” to set 20 or so scenes in front … Continue reading →