Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Every year or so I am moved — by WordPress’s lack of movement to fix glitches or eagerness to make an almost unending series of changes for the worse — to point out this Automatic blog provider’s unsuitability, if you’re … Continue reading →

Whatever is going on around her and whoever else is in the overripe Netflix murder mystery “His & Hers,” Marin Ireland is the one who gets it. The latest project from the director of the feature film “Lady Macbeth” is … Continue reading →

If you see enough movies, attend enough plays and make it through enough literature, you earn the license to say you’ve “seen’em all.” There are only so many basic plots, with a vast but still finite number of variations on … Continue reading →

One of the pleasures of youth is experiencing the stages and phases and Big Moments of life for the first time. And one of the indulgences of being pre-“thirtysomething” is the feeling that you’re “discovering” or reinventing things earlier generations … Continue reading →

Filmgoers looking for a little escape from the more-horrific-than-fiction daily news out of America will be hard pressed to find it in a movie with “Greenland” and “Migration” in its title. The sequel to the surprise post-apocalyptic Gerard Butler hit … Continue reading →

Wonder if they take refugees fleeing Nazis?

“Band on the Run” is a sweet little nothing of a roadtrip comedy where the “nothing” overwhelms the “sweet.” It has its moments. Just not that many. Writer-director Jeff Hupp set this tale at the end of the golden age … Continue reading →

France’s great re-invention of cinema, pioneered by the “New Wave” of French filmmakers who started writing and directing in the 1950s, is charmingly remembered in Richard Linklater’s affectionate homage “Nouvelle Vague.” The director of “Boyhood” and more tellingly “Me and … Continue reading →

I’d call the title “Relentless” truth in advertising, althought “Pitiless,” “Endless” and “Senseless” work just as well. This new thriller from the sarcastically surnamed writer-director Tom Botchii (real name Tom Botchii Skowronski of “Artik” fame) begins in uninteresting mystery, strains … Continue reading →

“Everything to Me” is a coming-of-age dramedy so inconsequential as to make one question how it ever got financed and shot. Skipping past the still rarish nature of such tales told from the point of view of girls and young … Continue reading →