Daily Archives: July 22, 2024

You scroll through your Amazon Prime queue and notice that there’s an Emma Roberts comedy called “Space Cadet,” a film that she just made it and that it’s not some project you missed from her teens and 20s (she’s 33). … Continue reading →

Look at the sight gags, reason out the plot, read the jokey subtitles. Aug 30.

Melanie Thompson, Bryce Harrow and Marisa Hood are part of a”Surprise!” Birthday party where things go wrong. And romantic? August 13.

“The Beautiful Summer (La bella estate)” is a sumptuous Italian period piece, a “discovering my sexuality” romance that’s gorgeous to look at, frame by frame. But when the frame moves, the story those images slowly tell is shallow and slight, … Continue reading →

“My Man Godfrey” struck a nerve when it opened in the middle of The Great Depression. It’s a nerve that it strikes to this very day. A movie that presents the idle rich as “empty-headed nitwits,” with even the more … Continue reading →