Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is a charming little stop-motion animated project built on an Internet/Youtube sensation from long ago. Well, pre-Pandemic anyway. Dreamed up by Jenny Slate, then freshly-dropped from “Saturday Night Live” for dropping a live f-bomb, … Continue reading →

“Swap Me, Baby” is a self-consciously goofy two-handed farce about a mismatched couple about to have a baby. Their story? He’s “an escort, and the condom broke.” It’s a stoner “Catastrophe,” for those who remember that Sharon Horgan/Rob Delaney TV … Continue reading →

For Western fans who aren’t all that particular about how they get to The Big Shootout, and aren’t that concerned about how pokey the picture is that gets them there, we give you “Murder at Yellowstone City,” a murder mystery … Continue reading →

Everybody has their own threshold of tolerance of or enthusiasm for the dominant streaming service. If you’re hooked on series, love the online version of water-cooler conversation about “Stranger Things,” “Squid Games,” earlier break-out “Ozark” and the like, you’re probably … Continue reading →

Here’s an Around the World with Netflix first, a rom-com about a cooking show contestant who wants to better her life by winning a TV “Cook Off.” It’s the first feature film from Zimbabwe purchased and distributed by Netflix, and … Continue reading →

The longest film I ever reviewed was “La Belle Noiseuse, The Beautiful Troublemaker,” a near real-time Swiss drama about a famous painter whose creative energy returns when he meets the beautiful girlfriend of a young protege. It plays out in … Continue reading →

Michael J. Fox had a nice, decade-long run as an “It” star in Hollywood, the Canadian-next-door leading man who got first dibs on a lot of prestige projects. That wasn’t just due to his TV fame, the sitcom stardom brought … Continue reading →

Jamie Foxx may be an Oscar winner, and an accomplished musician, singer and stand-up, too. But he’d seem an unlikely candidate for a book on fathering. Not Herschel Walker unlikely. But a party animal, good-time TV and movie star with … Continue reading →

A college age daughter returns to Athens to care for her emotionally-distant, now-infirm father in “Moon, 66 Questions,” the latest teaming of writer-director Jacqueline Lentzou with her on-screen alter ego, Sofia Kokkali (“The End of Suffering”). It’s a self-consciously-filmed soft-spoken … Continue reading →

Creepy and atmospheric and coming to Shudder July 14.