Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Sure, she’s a bit rusty. But even in her post “Cats” despair, Rebel Wilson should’ve known that 113 minutes of her going back to high school was never going to fly. Here’s the test that will tell you whether or … Continue reading →

In a couple of days, I finally have a preview screening of “Top Gun: Maverick” that I can get to. And even though I expect to be dazzled by the aerial epic built around Tom Cruise, known for wanting to … Continue reading →

In the years since William Klein’s intimate “all access” tennis documentary “The French” came out, it’s been somewhat displaced as the definitive statement on that glorious era in tennis — the late’70s through the mid-’80s. “John McEnroe: In the Realm … Continue reading →

If I hadn’t looked the director’s filmography, with titles like “Amityville Uprising” and the biker-chick thriller “Nation’s Fire,” I’d have leapt to some pretty seriously misguided conclusions about “The Godfather Buck,” a rich brothers hunting and bonding and sharing drama … Continue reading →

The serious and seriously posh actress is finding her career second wind in thrillers like “Resurrection,” which comes our way Aug. 5, thanks to IFC. A paranoid mother will do anything to “protect myself and my daughter from harm.”

That quarrelsome, secrets-keeping couple from Cuzco are still saying “Si, mi amor (Yes, my love)” in “Let’s Tie the Knot, Honey (¿Nos casamos? Sí, mi amor),” an antic if not-quite-silly-enough sequel to their earlier Peruvian rom-com. Co-star Yiddá Eslava takes … Continue reading →

Look at that face. Does it terrify you, fill you with dread at what a short-tempered child with telekinetic powers might do to you, the room you’re in or the trees outside? That’s one drawback to the new “Firestarter,” Blumhouse/Universal’s … Continue reading →

Diane Kruger and Jeffrey Donovan play sympathetic parents, but people with their own problems, in this June 17 release. Love the tone. Serious. Romantic. Teenage longing confronted by harsh leaving-for-college reality.

Perfectly good comedy to update every generation. This is a Miami set version with a lot of modern touches — the parents of the Bride are in couples counseling — and there’s a laugh or two on the trailer. Probably … Continue reading →

The set-up has “can’t miss” built into it. A “posh,” educated and upper class family’s son falls for a brassy, sexy and gauche exercise instructor. His buttoned-down, everything-just-so Mom finds herself forced to deal with unsophisticated and less-than-hygienic potential in-laws … Continue reading →