Monthly Archives: September 2024

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 →

The dialogue has a metallic tang and the smell of a just-fired revolver about it in “Rebel Ridge,” an “In the Heat of the Night” style tale of Southern justice in the golden age of “cash forfeiture.” Lines like “Just … Continue reading →

J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle, Willem Dafoe as the voice of Network doom, and Jason Reitman’s survey of how the hot mess that was and is “SNL” first made it on the air serves up players — Gilda and Jane … Continue reading →

So there’s a “Green Man” killer stalking the Plains in one of the great disasters in American history. “Slender Man” meets Ken Burns’ worst documentary nightmare. A mother tries to protect her children from the fatal choice to move to … Continue reading →