Monthly Archives: June 2024

There’s nothing novel or new about “Edge of Everything.” But for half a century, every generation has needed its cinematic essay on growing up in a heedless rush. Comedy or tragedy, cartoonish or cautionary, “Sixteen Candles” or “thirteen,” “Edge of … Continue reading →

Gassed, winded and showing its/their age, those “Bad Boys” are back — wise-cracking, trash-talking, gun-slinging and coping with their own mortality for “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” The franchise is almost 30 years old and its action stars are well … Continue reading →

I think there were trailers to three hit man movies in a row before my screening of “Bad Boys.” This one stars Dave Bautista, serves up Sofia Boutella as the love interest who doesn’t have a clue what her man … Continue reading →

It’s hard for any film buff to believe that the famed British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ever went out of fashion. The co-writers and producers, with Powell doing the directing and Pressburger taking the lead on … Continue reading →

“Ride” is a somber, tense Texas melodrama about a rodeo family faced with a sick daughter, a prodigal, substance-abusing son fresh out of prison and the bankrupting power of the American healthcare system. Director and co-star Jake Allyn gave good … Continue reading →

Well, isn’t just the most doggoned adorable kid-friendly adventure movie trailer we’ve seen in ages? “Illusionist” dad returns for the first time in a decade, tween daughter sets out with him in search of an elusive panther. New Zealand co-stars … Continue reading →

The movie that sealed John Woo‘s reputation, and the genre with which he’d be most comfortable in the years to come, was 1986’s “A Better Tomorrow,” a gangland shoot-em-up that featured his longtime muse, tall, cool action icon Chow Yun-Fat. … Continue reading →

Whatever intrigues, insights and darkly comic charms writer-director Savi Gabizon gave audiences for his oddball Israeli dramedy “Longing” are mostly lost in translation in a Richard Gere remake he filmed in Canada. A tale of a middle-aged man who learns … Continue reading →

This “true story” weeper is about a woman who chased her dream to London, only to get diagnosed with MS years later. “I want to go home” where there just might be an old flame willing to “Take My Hand.” … Continue reading →

An 18th century tale of the horrors of settling Terra Australis? Color me…intrigued. Shudder has this one, which will enjoy a brief theatrical release June 21, and stream thereafter.