Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: "The Secret Between Us" isn't worth Keeping
- Movie Review: Travolta's "Propeller: One-Way Night Coach" is One for the Ages -- All Ages
- Movie Review: One last Iconic Anne Heche Image, and a lot of bodies -- "You're Killing Me"
- Movie Review: "Hoppers" Limps to Deliver a Worthy Message
- BOX OFFICE: "Scary Movie" is the real "Master of the Universe"
- Movie Review: This Romantic Corner of Tuscany is "No Place to be Single"
- Movie Review: Pokey Cowpoke Saga takes us "Where the Wind Blows"
- Movie Review: "Der Tiger" ("The Tank") Lumbers down a Too-Familiar Path
- Series Review: A "Grand(ish) Tour" returns... as a "clip show"
- Documentary Review: The Insufferable Ages into Adorable -- "Marty: Life Is Short"
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Movie Preview: “The Partisan” fights the odds and the Nazis in WWII Poland
Morgane Polanski and Malcolm McDowell star in this mistitled “true story” retelling of the derring do of Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish spy run back into Warsaw by the Brits to supply the resistance there. Malcolm McDowell is her British handler. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Preview: “The Partisan” fights the odds and the Nazis in WWII Poland
Documentary Preview: Marc Maron’s Evolving Comedy, and Embrace of Podcasting — “Are We Good?”
I review lots of stand up docs because it’s a profession and calling that I find fascinating. There were nights, earlier in my career, when I’d sit down with a stand-up before his or her set in a club, interview … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Preview: Marc Maron’s Evolving Comedy, and Embrace of Podcasting — “Are We Good?”
Movie Preview: Do you see “Wuthering Heights” in this Margot Robbie movie trailer?
Jacob Elordi is Heathcliff, with Hong Chao and Martin Clunes in what is sure to be a sexed up take on the 1847 Emily Bronte novel of the Yorkshire moors. The seventh big screen version of this celebrated novel might … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Preview: Do you see “Wuthering Heights” in this Margot Robbie movie trailer?
Movie Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” is Vintage Spike & Denzel
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Spike Lee movie as self-assured, cocky and indulgent as “Highest 2 Lowest.” The film, a remake of a 1963 Akira Kurosawa kidnapping thriller based on a novel by Ed McBain, is long … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged denzel-washington, film, highest-2-lowest, movies, spike-lee
Comments Off on Movie Review: “Highest 2 Lowest” is Vintage Spike & Denzel
Netflixable? Action Comedy Lampoons a Real Life Serial Killer Case — “Inspector Zende”
“Inspector Zende” is an action comedy take on an infamous real-life serial killer case, a movie that hunts for laughs in hapless but dogged Indian policing. Writer-director Chinmay Mandlekar makes his feature directing debut in this made-for-Netflix movie, and never … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged bikini-killer-case, indian-film-review, movies, netflix
Comments Off on Netflixable? Action Comedy Lampoons a Real Life Serial Killer Case — “Inspector Zende”
Documentary Preview: “John Candy: I Like Me”
He could be the jovial, jolly “big man” stereotype, a walking sight gag, the above it all conniving hustler or slacker and a scary guy to cross. The movies fixated on the former and the middle versions of John Candy … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Documentary Preview: “John Candy: I Like Me”
Movie Review: “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” Forever and Ever, Amen.
“The Conjuring” universe staggers and finally folds in on itself with “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” a tedious, stumbling “finale” (perhaps) to a franchise that cannot help but repeat itself. Even the ongoing presence of Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Emmy … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged amityville, ed-warren, film, horror, lorraine-warren, movies, patrick-wilson, the-conjuring, vera-farmiga
Comments Off on Movie Review: “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” Forever and Ever, Amen.
“Conjuring DCLVI” time!
So many “Conjurings” I’ve lost count. You? Nothing like that 35th “Tron” preview to get the night rolling. Bring on Vera and Patrick!
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on “Conjuring DCLVI” time!
Movie Review: Gangsters pull a Heist that Goes Hellish –“All the Devils are Here”
“All the Devils are Here” is a slow, simmering heist-goes-wrong thriller from Jolly Olde where the “types” are familiar and the cliches go down easily. That’s the cinematic comfort food genre pieces promise and this one, taking its title from … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Gangsters pull a Heist that Goes Hellish –“All the Devils are Here”
Movie Review: An Animated Messiah Movie –“Light of the World”
A couple of Disney veterans and some big screen animation newcomers combined their talents for “Light of the World,” a polished, kid-friendly and even lighthearted Life of Jesus animated film. “Mulan” and “Aladdin” veterans Tom Bancroft (co-director) and Tony Bancroft … Continue reading
Movie Nation 