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Daily Archives: August 14, 2024
Movie Review: Animated Action Figures try to make “The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe”
“The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe” is nothing of the sort. But give it to the stoners who sat around a barbie and dreamed-up this daft would-be-romp. Mixing live-action surfing footage in with a loopy sci-fi story “acted” out … Continue reading
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Netflixable? “Lolo and the Kid” have their street hustle down cold
The couple can’t miss them, a bearded old man and a small boy eating street food, then curling up under cardboard when night falls just on the other side of the gate that guards the couple’s middle class bungalow. They’re … Continue reading
Movie Preview: Sweet cerebral sci fi puts Mary Louise Parker in an “Omni Loop”
Ayo Edebiri, Carlos Jacott and Harris Yulin also star in this improbable tale of trying to become the person you always meant to be Via time travel and “a black hole growing in the middle of her body.” Sept. 20.
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Movie Preview: A teen body positive fashionista comedy — “Empire Waist”
Bullied for her weight until she meets someone who shows her how to “own” it, this uplifting comedy stars Mia Kaplan as the teen designer/dressmaker and Jemima Yevu as the classmate who opens her eyes. Missy Pyle, Jolene Purdy and … Continue reading
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Movie Preview: Marvel gives Aaron Taylor Johnson and the very violent “Kraven the Hunter” a showcase
This trailer is gloom and doom and dark and bloody. With fanboy/fangirl fave Aaron TJ in the title role, and Russell Crowe playing the father who taught him violence, this should be quite the holiday…treat. Ariana DuBose is Calypso, Alessandro … Continue reading
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