Daily Archives: December 27, 2025

Movie Review: What Makes “Marty Supreme?”

New York filmmaker Josh Safdie has his fans, and I’ve been one of them at times. At other times? Not so much. He does underbelly-of-the-city stories well. “Good Time” was something of a reinvention of the possibilities of Robert Pattinson. … Continue reading

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BOX OFFICE: It’s still “Avatar’s” world, “Marty” makes Bank, “Anaconda” strikes and “Song Sung Blue” struggles

A $64 million post-Christmas, final-weekend of the year take certifies James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” as the final blockbuster of 2025, as it hurtles past the $200 million mark — $214 million taken in by midnight Sunday, reports TheNumbers.com. … Continue reading

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Movie Review: “Song Sung Blue” Weepin’ in My Popcorn

Sing-along songs are musical comfort food, and any songsmith, singer or singer-songwriter can count him or herself lucky if they stumble into one in the course of a career. Musical biographies are the cinema’s equivalent of such comfort food, and … Continue reading

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Movie Preview: Charlize is the prey and Taron Egerton the “Apex” predator hunting her

So this April we can stream a new version of one of the hoariest plots in all of cinema, this one starring big names. It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” time again. Yay.

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Movie Review: Black and Rudd & Co. Learn You Can’t Go “Anaconda” Again

Three movie stars who have been funny in their pre-dad-bod past and Thandiwe Newton — who’s rarely been called to land laughs — shipped off to Australia to make an action comedy about a supersized snake in the Amazon, a … Continue reading

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