Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

This isn’t Lucio’s first scrape, and the fact he’s wearing that “Lookatme, I’m an anarchist!” beret tells us this man has never sold out and never denied who he is. They effect an amusing escape — not his first, not … Continue reading →

Ab”Boyd fron Brazil” conspiracy concerning “The Shroud of Jesus.” So, The Shroud of Turin had a lawyer? Jan 13. Feast your eyes on this.

Japan’s aging and shrinking population is the inspiration behind “Plan 75,” the debut feature of writer-director Chie Hayakawa. Expanding her short film of the same title, she imagines a Japan which a government program, “Plan 75,” incentivizes the elderly to … Continue reading →

French action auteur Pierre Morel of the “Taken” movies delivers a solid, tactically-fascinating Middle Eastern combat film with “The Ambush,” a United Arab Emirates -acked account of a firefight that really happened during the Yemeni Civil War. It’s a movie … Continue reading →

Full disclosure here, I had to watch Netflix’s new take on the oft-filmed “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” twice. No, not savor the sex scenes one more time. But because director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s lovely, natural light and “outdoorsy” version of the … Continue reading →

Really Disney? You buy 20th Century formerly-Fox film studio for Marvel’s X-Men, “Avatar” and…remaking Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies on the cheap? How cheap? Look at that shot posted above. THAT cheap. Making the aesthetic choice to … Continue reading →

Norway can always be relied on to deliver a dose of dumb fun, with cool effects, when it comes to their mythic mountain monsters — trolls. The worst thing you can say about the new Roar Uthaug (“The Wave,” “Tomb … Continue reading →

Animation is the proper way for a kid to first experience Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Live theater performances and the “classic” film renditions — 1951 with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, 1984’s exceptional George C. Scott TV movie Scrooge … Continue reading →

It was never going to be a horror film for everyone. And whatever its broader appeal, a teen cannibals in love story co-starring transgression-is-my-brand Timothée Chalamet was not something I particularly wanted to see. But as a “Badlands” style outlaw … Continue reading →

Parenting is not for the faint-hearted or the disengaged, something every generation seems to have to figure out for itself. You don’t “need a license” to do it, the old joke goes, and even that might not help. The new … Continue reading →