Monthly Archives: July 2024

It often seems to me that when it comes to “on the spectrum” characters, the movies have never managed to progress beyond the Hugh Dancy/Rose Byrne Asperger’s romance “Adam,” which came out some 15 years ago. Screenwriters take liberties, making … Continue reading →

Jay Pharaoh and Jim Gaffigan are in the supporting cast of this Lionsgate farce about people learning exactly how many days they have left on this Earth, and making their love-life/future-life decisions based on that. This is clumsy trailer that … Continue reading →

That “magnificent” hulking, “talking, pratfall-taking sight gag that is Dave Bautista” didn’t get the lesson that maybe a violent action film pairing him with a little girl wasn’t the best idea after “My Spy.” It wasn’t a box office hit, for … Continue reading →

Eddie vamps up this new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson story, with Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Robyn Cara and Jonathan Hyde (Why not?) in support. Has anybody ever asked Eddie Izzard what he thinks of Ricky Gervais and David … Continue reading →

Even a casual Marx Brothers fan knows that the siblings made their best films for their first Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures. Already vaudeville veterans pushing past 40, they made their satiric masterpiece, “Duck Soup”(1933) and the wacky stage adaptations “The … Continue reading →

The summer’s big blast of climate-changed disaster, “Twisters,” had a big Thursday afternoon and evening and a bigger Friday clearing $32 million by midnight last night. That’s pointing to a two-studio (Universal/WB) release that will devour the weekend and let Universal … Continue reading →

The best Hallmark movie in years was snatched up by Netflix. “Find Me Falling” is a Harry Connick Jr. star vehicle and showcases him as an aged rock star fleeing the downward spiral that comes for most rock stars after … Continue reading →

Fionn O’Shea plays the young Beckett, with Lisa Dwyer Hogg, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake, Bronagh Gallagher and Caroline Boulton cast as some among the many women in his life. Love the casting of the Irish icon Gabriel Byrne as this … Continue reading →

Carla Juri and Takashi Ueno star in this downbeat Bradley Rust romance, about a woman who travels to Tokyo to visit a friend after the death of her husband. She finds that life goes on, experiencing different worlds within the … Continue reading →

A Pope dies and the world’s cardinals gather, and “you know how rumors spread.” About the death, the election and the candidates, one presumes? The cast includes Sergio Castellitto, Lucian Msamati and Brian F. O’Byrne. November, this latest film from … Continue reading →