Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

What tea leaves is Jennifer Lopez reading that parked her in a “Working Girl” style comedy about “faking it until you make it?” Answered my own question there, didn’t I? “Second Act” is about people who missed out on education … Continue reading →

The first trailer was cryptic, which is probably why traffic to my eight year old  review of the documentary that inspired it, “Marwen” exploded over the past month. “Welcome to Marwen” is about an artist, badly hurt in a mugging, who … Continue reading →

Spanish filmmaker  José Díaz Martínez wanted some time to himself, to reflect on his long-dead brother Tino and get away from the modern world. And his wife and two kids as well, he doesn’t hasten to add. So he set … Continue reading →

It’s got to be exhausting being Bobbito Garcia, the self-styled “cultural orchestrator” at the nexus of New York’s sneaker, hoops and hip hop culture. He’s probably hard on friends, too. He must wear them out, after a while. Hell, I’m … Continue reading →

This is the form of storytelling a big chunk of the cinema/cable/streaming audience loves these days, interconnecting threads, shared characters, etc. Not a fan of that, myself. But “Split” was fraught, I tellya, just fraught! Shyamalan’s comeback has been humbling … Continue reading →

Nobody takes “class war” more seriously than the Brits. A nation that misnames its most exclusive institutions “public,” where accent, political party and the very newspaper one reads seems set for life at birth, it has to. And in acknowledging … Continue reading →

Top drawer supporting cast for this summer romantic drama — parents played by Judy Greer and Luke Wilson, a sage by Donald Sutherland. Blake Cooper, Liana Liberato and Danielle Rose Russell are the young leads. An intriguing trailer that packs … Continue reading →

Got to love the pun in the title. And are there two more intense actors working today than Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon? “The Current War” is about the war between Edison and Westinghouse, between AC and DC. With Nicholas … Continue reading →

You only get to sweep us off our feet once, and expecting to do it again is just…greedy. Where the guiding light in the original musical, “Mamma Mia!,” was the disco-era delights of Abba, the sequel “Mamma Mia! Here We … Continue reading →

Matt Smith? OK. Natalie Dormer? Flip your hair, dear, so we know it’s you. Meowwwwwrrrrr. The desperate search for that first infected zombie (so as to affect a cure) leads to Stanley T. Thank heavens. Looks fun, even if it … Continue reading →