Monthly Archives: June 2024

Lupita and Pedro are the big names but not the only “names” in the voice cast. The design and animation are stunning, sleek. Love the messaging. The conflict shoehorned in seems a tad on the nose and over the top … Continue reading →

There’s something very attractive about this idea that we go “when it’s your time to go,” and that maybe the hereafter is a bureaucracy we can litigate our way into more time on Earth through. As fodder for fantasy, that … Continue reading →

Leaning into the logic that “parents are still taking the tykes to “Garfield” at the cinema — at least until “Inside/Out 2” opens — let’s see what this latest iteration of “The Garfield Movie” is all about. Years of TV … Continue reading →

It isn’t scary, with even the best-engineered “gotchas” landing flat. Kind of a big deal when you’re making a horror film. It’s joyless and humorless to boot, with slick production design that imagines a creature-inhabited “forest” on an island generally … Continue reading →

This is what I get for not catching “Garfield” weeks ago. Missing out on an August 2 release trailer for this adaptation of a Crockett Johnson kiddie book. Could be cute. Or not.

I didn’t really warm up to “Hit Man,” a glib comedy about a freelance police surveillance technician pressed into service as a fake murderer-for-hire to entrap people conspiring to have someone killed. Its efforts to find “cute” and “charming” in … Continue reading →

It’s usually only alluded to in TV news coverage of why China is so interested in “developing” Africa with roads and infrastructure and buying up swaths of America or Australia, what Saudi Arabia is up to purchasing land abroad or … Continue reading →

There are many good excuses for a film buff to not “get around to” the Powell & Pressburger production, “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.” It’s almost three hours long, is famous for its sentimentality and cinematic patience in … Continue reading →

A big but not huge Thursday night folded into a robust Friday take and “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” proved there’s still fan interest in pairing 50somethings Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and that what the box office has needed … Continue reading →

So this summer’s dumb, gonzo shark movie is French, and is about endangered sharks “evolving” and taking their “swim-eat-procreate” act up the River Seine to Paris. “Under Paris” lives down to that “dumb” label, with diver after diver suiting up, … Continue reading →