Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

There’s an optimism in every DisneyNature release, each timed to fall on Earth Day. No matter how embattled, threatened or tested nature is by a human race unwilling to switch off their SUV engine while we sit watching cat videos … Continue reading →

They were the first all-female rock band to put out an album on a major label, a fixture on concert tours, opening for Deep Purple, Jethro Tull and others, and a “novelty act” mainstay of TV musical variety shows of … Continue reading →

A period piece for Christina R, this one opens in early May.

A mobster on the lam turns life coach for an introverted Italian comic book nerd in “The Turning Point (La svolta),” an Italian mob dramedy with a hard, bloody edge. Riccardo Antonaroli’s film, based on a Roberto Cimpanelli/Gabriele Scarfone script, … Continue reading →

As beaten, shot, torched, blown-up and hacked to death as the zombie picture is, Uruguayan Gustavo Hernández finds a way to give us something that at least feels fresh in the genre. “Virus-32” or “Virus :32” is as pitiless as … Continue reading →

For the first two and a half acts of “Night Drive,” director Vysakh, his screenwriter Abhilash Pillai and cast treat us to a modestly-affecting thriller about a Christmas Eve drive gone wrong. There’s little action and lots of melodrama as … Continue reading →

It’s French, of course. And Polish. With a little English. Bertrand Mandico’s “After Blue” drops on June 3.

“Children of Sin” is the third micro-budget, self-distributed feature horror film from writer, director, actor and producer Christopher Wesley Moore. He had trouble getting anyone to review his first two films, “Triggered” and “A Stranger Among the Living.” “Sin,” a … Continue reading →

Last quarter, Netflix’s long streak of expanding subscriber numbers ended with a bang. They lost paying customers in the hundreds of thousands — with millions more projected to bail out. . And that has them looking for culprits. First came … Continue reading →

Reports of Nicolas Cage’s “comeback” have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, that’s mainly because, as Cage himself — playing a daffier version of himself — says a few times in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” “I was never gone.“ Sure, … Continue reading →