Monthly Archives: August 2024

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.

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 →

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 →

Well doesn’t this look plucky and heart warming? I bet Greg Kinnear cries. Or makes us cry. This opens August 30

It’s almost always funny when the subject of a surprise party belts the person who planned the party in the eye the moment they’re shocked with the shout of “SURPRISE!” “I guess those cardio kick-boxing lessons paid off!” another guest … Continue reading →

“The Beast Within” is a stylish, allegorical werewolf thriller that toys with its mysteries but can never escape the absurdity that clumsy plotting built into it. Alexander J. Farrell’s British woodslands tale is seen through the eyes of a child. … Continue reading →

One of the under-appreciated Kings of Film Comedy, Blake Edwards did “Pink Panther” movies, and “10,” “Victor/Victoria” and the pretty good skewering of Hollywood, “SOB.” The Panther movies are a grand thing to be remembered for, kid-friendly slapstick “sex farces” … Continue reading →

A chiller about the ’60s/70s “dating” game show, with Anna K. playing a struggling actress who gets on the show for exposure and figures out the awful truth about it and herself in the process. Doesn’t look as if this … Continue reading →

A black and white Western, a real world outside the making of that Western with people in the jungles of Brazil and the frozen north. This is the latest three stories/one movie adventure from trippy Argentine Lisandro Alonso (“Liverpool”).

August 23, we get a load of this. A lot of OLD GUYS in the cast. Which explains the techno. Oui?