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Daily Archives: July 24, 2024
Movie Preview: Cate and Jamie Lee, the voice of Jack Black and ELO and Kevin Hart — “Borderlands”
Hart, in particular, has been on a run of late —shyte shoveled on top of shyte, with the little man standing on top of the piles tailor-made for him. But slap him in an antic sci-fi action comedy with two … Continue reading
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Netfixable? Remembering Pearlman’s Ponzi Pop Empire — “Dirty Pop: The Boyband Scam”
There was the famous relative in the music business — Art Garfunkel — whose name he never tired of dropping, the airline that had no actual planes, the blimp business whose German-built airships kept crashing and then the boy band … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Chalamet as Dylan, Norton as Pete Seeger, in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown”
Props for doing his own singing and growing his own hair into a Dylanesque mop. Scoot McNairy is the dying legend Woody Guthrie, Elle Fanning is Sylvie (renamed version of Suze Rotolo), Monica Barbaro is Baez, Boyd Holbrook takes a … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Customs Frontline” has Bond Ambition and Budget — and People’s Republic Messaging
Nicholas Tse stars in and choreographs the fights of “Customs Frontline,” a big budget Chinese shoot-em-up that features arms smuggling, a submarine, air raids and an African war fought over fishing rights. The only people who stand in the way … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Trapped in “The Thicket” with Peter Dinklage
A fin de sicle Western,, with horses and murder and snow and Tin Lizzies? Dinklage is a bounty hunter? Juliettte Lewis and Arliss Howard also star in this Tarantinoesque stomp through snow and violence, due out from Samuel Goldwyn Sept. … Continue reading
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Movie Review: A Gay Fantasia with a Rodeo Twist — “National Anthem”
The Woke Wars are far from over. Ask any white-wellies Nazi runt in Florida about that. But if the defiantly queer, teasingly trans indie drama “National Anthem” accomplishes nothing else, it seizes “patriotic” iconography from the pick-up truck decoratin’ rednecks … Continue reading
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