Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Miles Walton is a teen with a dream, one his principal indulges with a killer compliment. He makes little movies, works part time at the local three-screen cinema, and could be “the next Spielberg.” If only he can get into … Continue reading →

History has provided us with two great death scenes that play like farce. One was the heroic end of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, an admiral who had signaled his fleet that “England expects every man to do his duty.” Wounded … Continue reading →

I’d missed this trailer, attached to a showing of “Nostalgia” I caught Thursday. That film stars Jon Hamm, as does this one. Both are Bleecker St. releases. A mediator trying to negotiate the release of an old friend who’s been … Continue reading →

Illumination’s “Minions” worthy take on the Doctor Seuss classic seems different enough to hold the eye. At least the trailer does. Heck, they got Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the heartless creep. Inferior to the Chuck Jones/Boris Karloff/singer Thurl Ravenscroft original? … Continue reading →

The tides of life see us add and acquire, collect and gather people, relationships, property and things. And as we age, we let — often reluctantly — those things and people fall away. As the tide goes back out we … Continue reading →

  Bad movies always start with bad scripts — poorly conceived characters, inane scenes, drab dialogue.   “Gringo” doubles down on disastrous by casting some seriously unfunny people as those unfunny characters. Nobody in this Australian-directed, multi-national cast caper comedy … Continue reading →

So America’s major cinema chains got together and started their own movie production company, Entertainment Studios. And what these geniuses decided that they needed for their screens was a “Sharknado” without sharks. Or jokes. What audiences are clamoring for and … Continue reading →

The Death of Stalin opens in some cities Friday, in Orlando (at the Enzian) Mar. 23 and expanding Mar. 30. Steve Buscemi as Kruschev, Michael Palin, the folks who made “In the Loop.” We could use a few laughs at … Continue reading →

Hyped up to 12 on the “Black Panther” anticipation scale and as high-minded as “A Very Special ‘Oprah,’” “A Wrinkle in Time” arrives in theaters as an exquisite waxwork rendition of  Madeleine L’Engle‘s Newbery Medal-winning novel. It’s lovely to look at … Continue reading →

We’ve already had a perfectly serviceable film biography of A.A. Milne and the little boy who inspired his Winnie the Pooh books, “Goodbye, Christopher Robin.” That one starred the omni-present Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie and came out a year … Continue reading →