Daily Archives: November 27, 2024

Netflixable? Santa’s helpers take it off — “The Merry Gentlemen”

Netflix’s conquest of “The Hallmark Holiday Movie” as a genre continues with “The Merry Gentlemen,” a snowy tale of Santa season stripping to save the family bar. These movies follow a fairly strict formula, and this one — scripted by … Continue reading

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Movie Review: Whigham and Coon, a Hitman and his “Victim,” may never get to “Lake George”

An ex-con is arm-twisted into solving “a little problem that needs to go away” — a mobster’s ex-girlfriend — in “Lake George,” a dark, dry and funny “hit-man” thriller where the “hit-man” keeps insisting “I don’t do that kind of … Continue reading

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