Top Posts & Pages
- BOX OFFICE: "Avatar" owns the Weekend, but "David" and "Housemaid" find their Audience
- Movie Review: Seyfried's the House Mistress, Sydney Sweeney's "The Housemaid"
- Movie Review: "Avatar: Fire and Ash" and Dazzling Tedium
- Series Review: "House of Guinness" is a Pint in a Gilded Gallon-sized Glass
- Documentary Review: A "Caterpillar" figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly
- Movie Review: "Sisu: Road to Revenge" takes a Wrong Turn or Three
- Movie Review: An Animated Musical "David" for the Faithful
- Movie Review: Who's creepier, Foster Parents or "The Fostered?"
- It's an "Avatar" afternoon
- Movie Review: Of Course Kevin James stars in the "Playdate" from Hell
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”
“Love Forever” is an overpopulated Swedish wedding farce that offers more possibilities than payoffs. Writer-director Staffan Lindberg throws in lots of tropes and “types” and reaches for plenty of low-hanging fruit in this comedy about city Swedes shoehorned into a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged movie-review, movies, netflix, sweden, wedding-comedy
Comments Off on Netflixable? Wedding Mayhem comes to a Swedish Couple promising to “Love Forever”
Movie Review: Sexually-attracted StepSiblings in a Rich New Setting — “My Fault: London”
Argentine-born Sevillian novelist Mercedes Ron has made a pretty good living off her rich-stepsiblings-incest intellectual property, the “Culpables Trilogy” — “Culpa Mia,” “Culpa Tuya” and “Culpa Nuestra,” which translates as “My Fault,” “Your Fault” and “Our Fault.” Being young and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Sexually-attracted StepSiblings in a Rich New Setting — “My Fault: London”
Movie Review: A Scatological Parable where Nothing is Wasted — “Okiku and the World (Sekai no Okiku)”
Attention to detail is one thing we typically celebrate in a cinematic period piece, a movie meant to transport us to a particular corner of the past. But when it comes to the Edo Period Japanese romance “Okiku and the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: A Scatological Parable where Nothing is Wasted — “Okiku and the World (Sekai no Okiku)”
Documentary Preview: Andy Kaufman, you think we “get” him yet? “Thank You Very Much”
March 25, a lot of folks who remember, puzzled over and were impressed by Andy K. weigh in.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Preview: Andy Kaufman, you think we “get” him yet? “Thank You Very Much”
Movie Preview: An Intimate and Epic Love Story set against California Horse racing — “On Swift Horses”
The land of opportunity, the state of possibilities and “the love that dare not speak its name.” Or “names.” Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva and Sasha Calle star in this period piece based on a Shannon Pufahl … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Preview: An Intimate and Epic Love Story set against California Horse racing — “On Swift Horses”
Classic Documentary Review: Essential Herzog, Werner and Klaus Kinski, “My Best Fiend” (1999)
In Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” the deluded, forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond lamented a lost and very different era in cinema — silent films. “We didn’t need dialogue,” she bellows. “We had FACES!” It’s a line that comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Classic Documentary Review: Essential Herzog, Werner and Klaus Kinski, “My Best Fiend” (1999)
Netflixable? A Doomed Dairy, a Leveraged Wedding and Polish Racism/Sexism/”Gingerism” — “Death Before the Wedding”
Today’s Around the World with Netflix offering is another cringey-cutesie comedy from Poland, a wish-fulfillment farce about an old industry, a new couple and the “old ways” — which include Poland’s long history of racism. “Death Before the Wedding” is … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Netflixable? A Doomed Dairy, a Leveraged Wedding and Polish Racism/Sexism/”Gingerism” — “Death Before the Wedding”
BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” opens shy of “huge,” “Paddington” doesn’t do Disney numbers
Fan anticipation for any Marvel movie is always high. But one didn’t get a lot of sizzle from the “Captain America: Brave New World” trailers over the months. There’s been so much Marvel content streaming that the entire blockbuster mother … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” opens shy of “huge,” “Paddington” doesn’t do Disney numbers
Movie Review: Did Anya Taylor-Joy’s agent survive “The Gorge?”
LOL, right? No agent’s going to get fired for getting her or his client Apple money to make a movie directed by the guy who filmed “Doctor Strange” and “Black Phone.” But oy. This script. These characters. This dialogue. This … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Did Anya Taylor-Joy’s agent survive “The Gorge?”
Movie Preview: Affleck, Bernthal and J.K. Simmons do the books as more bodies pile up — “The Accountant 2”
Golly guys, I still haven’t worn out my t shirts from the original film, which was about a math whiz who knows too much. April 25.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Preview: Affleck, Bernthal and J.K. Simmons do the books as more bodies pile up — “The Accountant 2”
Movie Nation 