Monthly Archives: September 2024

“How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” is a sweet, sad and sentimental Thai end-of-life melodrama titled and set-up like a greedy-family farce. A lazy, online gamer grandson (Putthipong Assaratanakul) sees an enterprising, mercenary cousin (Tontawan Tantivejakul) care for an … Continue reading →

It was “The Lavender Hill Mob” and “The Titfield Thunderbolt” that Monty Python’s John Cleese was remembering when he decided that well-past-70 Charles Critchon might be just the jolly sort to direct his screenplay for “A Fish Called Wanda.” Those … Continue reading →

Ok, the concept/conceit here is kind of LOL. Riley Dandy and Adam David Thompson, playing robber-siblings, hope we’re expecting great things in the thriller’s execution. Buzz is pretty good. Oct. 4.

Yes, there’s a whiff — a tiny hint — of rival ex-child-star Selena Gomez’s TV hit “Only Murders in the Building” in this “Only Serial Killer on Our Floor, and he’s Rich” thriller. Blood and cleavers and Dermot Mulroney and … Continue reading →

Love the casting. This looks fun, Jekyll/Hyde twins tossed into a vampire salad. Oct. 4.

An academic physicist confronts the Big Existential question at life’s end in the deliberate, low-key sci-fi dramedy “Omni Loop,” a film that ponders “What was it all for?” A career with great promise and a life of paths taken or … Continue reading →

“Shiva Baby,” “Bottoms” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” have given Rachel Sennott acting baggage, typecasting her as a confident-to-the-point-of-brazen, comically-blunt and cocksure (sorry) young woman whose allure has a contract rider. You don’t want to cross her, or anybody she plays. … Continue reading →

Michelle Austin and Bryony Miller and star in the latest film from Britain’s most important social-observer/filmmaker, Mike Leigh. Leigh did “Vera Drake” and “Secrets & Lies” and Happy-Go-Lucky” and “Mr. Turner” and “Naked” and “Peterloo” and “Life is Sweet” and … Continue reading →

The making of a pathological liar, professional credit thief and perpetual failure, tutored by one of the most malignant figures in American political history to be become the MOST malignant figure in American political history. It wasn’t just Roger Stone, … Continue reading →

It’s got to be the most unusual of dilemmas, facing your twilight years as one of the most beloved figures in American pop culture. James Earl Jones, a giant of the American theatre, Black theatre and screens big and small, … Continue reading →