Monthly Archives: August 2024

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?

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 →

The big turnout Thursday and Friday pushed the Blake Lively film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s romance with a side of abuse novel “It Ends with Us” pushed it over $23 million for the weekend. The drama, also starring Justin Baldoni … 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 →