Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

The world’s most popular sport is bound to produce scads of formulaic sports dramedies about plucky underdogs and the challenges they face mastering or at least embracing “The Beautiful Game” in pursuit of some higher um, “goal.” “Next Goal Wins,” … Continue reading →

Bill Skarsgard…because there aren’t enough Skarsgardlings in the cinema, with Michelle Dockery, Jessica Roth, Sharlto Copley, Isaiah Mustafa and Old School Famke Janssen star in this gonzo bloodback about a dead and mute guy who goeth on a rampage. And … Continue reading →

What a charming little animated whimsy “Chicken for Linda!” is. It’s an adorable cartoon for French students of all ages, by turns sweetly sentimental and seriously slapshticky, a tale of a child who craves a dish her father used to … Continue reading →

I didn’t take a shine to Orson Welles‘ “Mr. Arkadin,” which I believe I saw under the “Confidential Report” title back in grad school. My recollection was that it screened as a very rough print, and probably short enough to … Continue reading →

Former child actress Sasha Pieterse has the dual role lead, with Parker Young the hunk trapped in the sites of twin sisters up to no good. Nestor Carbonell and Mira Sorvino also star.

One Twitter wag this morning called “SCTV” comic Joe Flaherty “an American so cool we all thought he was Canadian.” Flaherty, an Emmy winner on TV (“Freaks & Geeks” was his other famous series) and a mainstay in movies, from … Continue reading →

The fights are furious but the convoluted political thriller surrounding them slows “Heart of the Hunter” down. It’s a South African action flick with almost as many characters and agendas as tribes and regional languages as the country itself. We … Continue reading →

Released just as the Vietnam War was peaking (1966-67), and shown in repertory houses throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s, “King of Hearts” is the sort of cute, quaint cult film that cannot fully flower out of its own … Continue reading →

Actress, artist, model and ’60s “It” girl, the most famous guise Anita Pallenberg appeared under was “muse.” She was linked to a lot of people who considered her thus, as she came to embody the mod, swinging “La Dolce Vita” … Continue reading →

The cast is good, the action beats solid and the explosions are epic in the latest French updating of an all-time action classic, “The Wages of Fear.” But almost everything else about this version ranges from “inferior” to “clumsy” to … Continue reading →