Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Yeah, sleeplessness makes you crazy. Not getting much else from the trailer for a Nov. 1 indie release.

One of the bloodiest “island hopping” fights across the Pacific is recreated in miniature with Casper van Dien, Louis Mandylor and Jeff Fahey. A fictional account set during the struggle for the island, “Battle of Saipan opens Nov. 24. Not … Continue reading →

I’m not being flippant when I refer to the gritty, soulful urban drama “Signs of Love” as very much “a family affair.” It’s about drugs, dealing and addiction and how that weighs on one neighborhood and one family, and the … Continue reading →

There’s a grandeur to the finest moments in David Gordon Green’s “Halloween Ends,” a film meant to wrap up the saga that made Jamie Lee Curtis famous. Green, an indie film mainstay before “Pineapple Express” made him famous, finishes up … Continue reading →

A little Aviation Gin/Funny or Die soaked spin on Mister Scrooge’s Big Night. Just in time for the holidays, early Nov. from Apple.

This looks and sounds wonderful. Oct 28, it comes to Apple TV+.

Unfortunate timing brings the latest of a string of “Zoom” films set during the COVID lockdown, “The Same Storm,” to theaters and home streaming after the funniest outing in the genre, “7 Days,” long after the solid drama “Together” and … Continue reading →

Jacki Weaver and Idina Menzel co star in this Oct. 21 release about a veteran con artist who aims higher and the FBI is all over it.

Stephen Lang has “Avatar 2,” “3” and “4” coming up. So he’s got that going for him. Meanwhile, he’s got at least two more C-pictures of his post-“Don’t Breathe” thriller career slated to arrive before “Avatar: The Way of Water” … Continue reading →

You know, you don’t need to take two and a half hours to do a funny, modern riff on Lina Wertmüller’s class-warfare-among-castaways classic “Swept Away (1974).” Even if you’re that Swedish slice of wry, Ruben Östlund. But if cutting “Triangle … Continue reading →