Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

It’s a Medieval fantasy with Robin Wright, Angela Bassett, Shohreh Agdashloo, Nick Robinson and Ray Winstone. Netflix is looking to keep itself in the Millie BB biz with this one.

When it’s good, “Journey to Bethlehem,” the latest faith-based film to take a shot at The Nativity Story, is playful and fun with actors who figure their characters are a bit campy, and vamp accordingly. It’s a musical with plenty … Continue reading →

So this is Netflix’s much ballyhoo’d David Fincher thriller, a film reuniting the acclaimed director with the screenwriter who wrote his breakout film, “Se7en?” It’s a hitman tale, beginning with a stalk and a job that finally happens and goes … Continue reading →

The great Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba takes an unusual route to investigating, remembering and immortalizing a Brazilian “samba jaza” and boss nova pianist in “They Shot the Piano Player.” He turned his search for answers about the talent, life and … Continue reading →

“Resident Evil: Death Island” continues the migration of this long-running video-game adaptation/series to the CGI universe. It’s a continuation of the storyline of the bio-weapon zombie series “Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness,” and judging from the clips of that 2020-2021 CGI … Continue reading →

“Poor Things” is a deliriously deranged comedy about one woman’s journey from suicidal despair to liberation, thanks to her discovery of the orgasmic pleasures of “furious jumping,” aka “sexual intercourse” done right. Yorgos Lanthimos, the most successful and mainstream avante … Continue reading →

Director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti go “home” for the holidays with the warm, acerbic but sentimental “The Holdovers,” a picture that hits a lot of the same notes of their greatest collaboration, “Sideways.” It’s a sweet but slight … Continue reading →

More emotions, because you knew Pixar wasn’t going to let go of an idea this good.

“Forever Young” is yet another “speculative fiction” tale that takes senior citizens for a dainty dip in the Fountain of Youth. It’s a somber, downbeat drama in which the familiar themes about how old age is “earned” and how some … Continue reading →

He wakes up in his underwear, trapped in a modernist but spare cell with track lighting, a computer terminal, a sink, a toilet and a lot of questions, one of which matters most of all. “What’s going on?” It’s not … Continue reading →