Daily Archives: September 9, 2025

Movie Preview: Remaking Hitchcock with “Coyotes” instead of “Birds?”

Yeah, that’s a reach. This nature-at-its-most-monstrous thriller is played for twisted laughs, with Justin Long and Kate Bosworth as a couple trying to survive a pack’s attack on their privileged lives. Brittany Allen and Norbert Leo Butz also star. October … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson make The Holidays One Big Sing-Along — “Song Sung Blue”

A Vietnam Vet Neil Diamond “interpreter” meets his muse, the daughter of a Hudson Brother. A “comeback” for Kate and for “Hustle & Flow” writer-director Craig Brewer? As your friendly neighborhood Scarecrow might put it. “JOY! RAPTURE! This opens Christmas … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: A Halloween Comedy about Pumpkin-cultivating in Limey Land — “Grow”

Kid friendly, with Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks and Tim McInnerny among the familiar faces in this Fathom Entertainment release set for Oct. 3. Looks very cute, and the director did “Anna and the Apocalypse.” Worth a go, no?

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Movie Preview: Count them. There Must be more than Seven — “Samurai Fury”

Epic much? Oct. 7.

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Movie Review: “The Map that Leads to You,” via Spain, Portugal and Rome

A pretty and capable young cast and a grand tour of the sights of Northern Spain and Portugal recommend “The Map that Leads to You,” a sweet nothing of a travelogue with lots of wish fulfillment fantasy about it. Madelyn … Continue reading

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