Monthly Archives: September 2024

The sequel to 1988’s “Beetlejuice,” serving up nostalgia, Winona and O’Hara and Ortega and Keaton and vintage Tim Burton production design, if not laughs, is aiming at being the second best Sept. opening weekend record, with a $110 take on … Continue reading →

This doc feature about funny friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele on a road trip will play in theaters to qualify for Oscar consideration, and roll onto Netflix Sept. 27. It’s a doc that gives the lie to the gay/”pronoun” … Continue reading →

Chris Weitz’s “AfrAId” lays out the benefits and perils of entrusting our lives and world to artificial intelligence well enough. A supercomputer-powered gadget that entertains, teaches, takes on research and onerous paperwork and can even diagnose health issues while maintaining … Continue reading →

Nostalgic, whimsically-detailed and production-designed to death, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is “fan service” with a capital “F.” It reunites Michael Keaton with one of his iconic roles, and with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara from 1988’s “Beetlejuice” and revives the … Continue reading →

Long before the abrupt, not-that-shocking and obvious anti-climax of the horror thriller “The Front Room,” the viewer may feel entitled to mutter, “So what is this really about?” A dark, serio-comic tussle with post partum depression? An unsubtle poke at … Continue reading →

The movie is a nostalgic wallow in old-school production design. The Bee Gees live on and pop up on the soundtrack and Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O” is reprised. But one musical gag, teased in the first act and camped to high … Continue reading →

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel comes to the screen in an adaptation by cinematographer and documentarian RaMell Ross. Amazon/MGM’s big Oscar bait fall release?

Becky Ann Baker, Rob Huebel, John Ashton, Colleen Camp and Chandra Russell also star in this singer, actress turned writer-director Haroula Rose serio-comic study in dysfunction, a Freestyle release.

A remote beach house with history, lovers hitting a rough patch with an imagined affair, a death and… Hannah Levian, Nathan Phillips and Ben Turland star in this chiller, opening in Oz shortly. North America release coming?

The cartoonish caper of “The Falling Star,” the latest semi-silent slapstick farce by the troupe led by Euro clowns Abel & Gordon, won’t be to every taste. Truth be told, it took me a good long while to get on … Continue reading →