Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

It’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, deciphering one’s scribbled notes in the dark taken while watching a film. But the words “DO NOT WANT” cover a page in the middle of what I noted about the … Continue reading →

A staple of community theater holiday seasons for decades comes to the big screen. I reviewed this in my theater critic days and always wondered, as middling as it is, why it was never picked up for the big screen. … Continue reading →

Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville and Romola Garai and Ben Hodges also star in this Brit thriller about a venomous critic “outed” and out for revenge. This looks wicked fierce, and delicious.

Simu Liu is a heavy, with Sean William Scott and Machine Gun Kelly, now going by MgK (Whatever bottle blond Colson Baker) also star. August 15 this MGM release pops up on Amazon Prime Video

The collective star power and screen charisma of Nicole Kidman, Kathy Bates, Zac Efron and Joey King can’t pull the dull, unromantic and utterly predictible romanntic comedy “A Family Affair” out of the doldrums. Scripted and directed by the usually … Continue reading →

This looks funny, famous dude wakes up on an island to discover everybody’s gone save for a few survivors and assorted murderous threats. And realizes just how little he has to contribute to society in this “New World.” Donald Glover, … Continue reading →

This Sept. 13 MGM release has a laugh-out-loud funny trailer, a cute and sentimental premise and the wisdom of “old” Aubrey Plaza — “Be nicer to Mom,” “The only thing you can’t get back is time.” Plaza as a profane, … Continue reading →

This Alabama bio-drama is about gender discrimination in the workplace, and the harassment and cut-rate pay faced by Lilly Ledbetter at a Goodyear plant in the union-fearing American South. Clarkson, 64, is a few years older than Ledbetter was when … Continue reading →

In an earlier life, I used to produce and engineer (record and edit) radio programs at the University of North Dakota public radio stations. A great favorite was the weekly taping with historian and history teacher Robert Wilkins, host of … Continue reading →

The days when the Rising Sun of the Japanese economy could make the world listen whenever an economic sage from Tokyo spoke are long gone. Remember “Gung Ho” and “Rising Sun?” Those were the days before economic stagnation, population collapse … Continue reading →