Monthly Archives: August 2024

There are a few actors worth taking a flier on just from seeing their name in the credits. Frank Langella sits on that list, or rather he once did. But the more important names attached to “Angry Neighbors” are Warren … Continue reading →

Writer-director Samuel Fuller (“The Big Red One,” “Pickup on South Street”) ticks off a lot of the “Sam Fuller Film” boxes in his 1959 noir drama, “The Crimson Kimono.” It’s sordid and a tad seamy, set on the mean streets … Continue reading →

There’s no getting around the “romance novel with abuse” maternity of “It Ends with Us.” A florist named Lily Bloom, a tall, handsome lover with anger management issues named Ryle (“Rile” would have been too on the nose?), a white … Continue reading →

A cutesie calamity of a sci-fi cartoon, “Borderlands” tosses Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis into an Eli Roth Cuisanart of crap, a movie where Kevin Hart should have been happy to take third, fourth or fifth billing. … Continue reading →

The idea, which two Afflecks and a Damon produced, one Affleck co-wrote and an Affleck and a Damon star in, was to throw Casey and Matt, Ving and Ron Perlman, Toby Jones and Alfred Molina and Hong Chau at a … Continue reading →

There’s something refreshing about seeing Zach Braff renew his “Scrubs” card with a lighter-than-lightweight rom-com that leans into the “sensitive” side which he’s always played for laughs. In “French Girl,” he’s trying to impress his hockey-crazed Canadian in-laws to be, … Continue reading →

Willem Dafoe and a mostly unknown cast of look-alikes take us back to 1975 with Lorne and Jane and Chevy and Gilda and Garrett and Dan and Laraine and Belushi, with Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman, as “Saturday Night” — … Continue reading →

Interns get to meet a volcano via their ranger supervisor in this travelogue with dramatic elements. The novelty in this scenic tale is the fact that it was shot with an erupting volcano — lava flows, the works — right … Continue reading →

The laughs are cute and spare in the Swiss comedy “Golden Years,” a movie more interested in looking at what the novelist Tom Robbins said was the “ONLY” question in life worth asking — “How to make love stay.” Are … Continue reading →

A mercenary mission goes wrong, very wrong, in this Sept. 20 thriller from the director of “Assassin’s Bullet.” Rhona Mitra also stars.