Daily Archives: December 22, 2024

Documentary Preview: A longer (full trailer) look at “Becoming Led Zeppelin”

It’s been a long lonely lonely lonely time. But that ends this Feb. “Authorized” and sanitized? Sure. Still looks fun.

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Movie Review: Jackie Chan, in the silly present, in the fantastical past “A Legend”

Let the record reflect that Jackie Chan is more limber, nimble and in better faux fighting trim at 70 than you are at 60, 35 or 20, “Boomer,” “Xer,” Millennial or what have you. Hong Kong’s king of martial arts … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Donnie Yen’s a two-fisted cop who kicks more ass as “The Prosecutor”

Love that Donnie Yen. Jan. 10.

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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)

A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading

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