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“Blueberry” is a drab indie “film festival movie” about a young gay woman who meets someone who might get her out of BFE, Indiana, and the conflict this creates with her sister, who sees the newcomer as a bad influence. … Continue reading →

Sterling Brown and Mark Strong are among the co-stars in this topical, FX-laden but possibly empty-headed actioner slated for release on Netflix May 24. It looks slick and really dumb.

“Boy Kills World” is a gonzo, video-game-violent/splatter-film-bloody “Hunger Games” for fanboys. It is “Oldboy” meets “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” pandering and slaughtering in equal measure, a movie with jaunty, genre-spoofing possibilities that descend into into lethargy and wind-up in … Continue reading →

Tatum stars as a tech tycoon with his own private island, Naomie Ackie is a cocktail waitress with gold digging on the brain. Oscar winner Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Christian Slater and Haley Joel Osmebt also star. This MGM/Amazon comic … Continue reading →

Looks cute. Ish. Neon has this one, which means it opens May 31, closes June 1. Or maybe June 2.

July 26, as surefire a hit as any comic book movie to ever come down the pike hits theaters. Shawn Levy directs our heroes teaming up to “fight a common enemy.” “Superfriends” eat your hearts out.

“We Grown Now,” the third feature of writer-director Minhal Baig, is a sentimental coming-of-age tale, a period piece nostalgic for Chicago’s stigmatized and long-gone Cabrini Green high-rise housing project. That’s just the first way this lovely and intimate film upends … Continue reading →

South African writer-director Brad Katzen puts extra effort into trying to make his stoner comedy “Soweto Blaze” look and sound new and “fresh.” The setting is a post-Apartheid Soweto, more affluent and generally unrest-free, with nicer homes and just a … Continue reading →

Josh Hartnett, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills and some relative of M. Night’s star in this Aug. 9 release. A big pop concert is used to capture a notorious serial killer, who apparently is a fan of the “Gaga-esque” singer, played … Continue reading →

“The Roaring Twenties” is a summation of the classic “gangster movie” era, all rolled up into one swift, sprawling narrative. Produced by THE gangster movie studio, Warner Brothers, released in that pinnacle cinematic year of 1939, we can look back … Continue reading →