Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

This tale of terror opens Nov. 8.

Harry Turner stars in this Guy and His Ocelot Friend story, which comes to theaters Dec. 21 and hits Amazon streaming shortly thereafter.

Mustafa stands on his mother’s apartment balcony chatting by phone with his wife and children. He can almost see them across the way. We gather that the highlight, for the three kids — 9-and-under — comes at the end of … Continue reading →

Equal parts funny and forlorn, with a smattering of the violence that always been a sort of Emerald Isle background noise, “The Banshees of Inisherin” is Martin McDonagh’s most Irish film, because it’s a lot like Ireland itself. Set in … Continue reading →

Disney+ is where you’ll find this Foundation Myth take on how The Mouse in the House the ho Built was created. Looks good. Nov. 18.

If you see just one Inuit kids fend off tentacled alien invaders thriller this year, make it “Slash/Back,” an above-the-Arctic Circle genre pic in the “Attack the Block” tradition. It’s a more good-natured-than-good Canadian production about a village beset by … Continue reading →

Intimate in scale, narrow in focus, “Mars One” is a melodrama of the “kitchen sink drama” school. A Brazilian submission for the Best International Feature prize at the Oscars, it takes us into the lives of a family of four, … Continue reading →

This “true story” looks unusual and arresting and authentic in casting and details. I’m totally there. Nov. 18.

Yes, the headline is a rhetorical question. Because if there’s one thing the 50+ years since “Bullitt” has proven, it’s that most every big screen cop thriller has been in many if not most ways a remake of this Steve … Continue reading →

What a dreadful bore “The Sleep Experiment” turns out to be. A period piece thriller about a sleep deprivation study in Britain’s Porton Down government science park, it’s old fashioned and corny, bloody and — like life itself in more … Continue reading →