Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Every place in time since the invention of the boat and everywhere there was commerce being moved over water, there have been pirates. That’s something Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski and Disney belatedly got around to mentioning in their many rum-soaked … Continue reading →

Someday, not someday soon, but someday the phrase “lockdown rom-com” will be alien to a generation that never had to improvise around a life and love life suddenly shut in and limited by a global pandemic. Here’s a cute-looking relic … Continue reading →

What A24 is to challenging, arty cinema, Well Go USA is to the coolest action from Asia. It’s their brand and they rarely disappoint. “Spiritwalker” comes to various platforms April 24.

In “Gasoline Alley,” Devon Sawa plays an ex-con tattoo artist who’s sure he’s being framed for a quadruple homicide in that corner of Tifton, Georgia that looks nothing like Southern California, which is where the story is set. Sawa’s ex-con … Continue reading →

I’m about to sit down to review the first Bruce Willis movie of March. And as far as I can tell, the next film with him in it is six weeks away. But as prolific as he’s being, turning up … Continue reading →

The “cell phone thriller” has been around at least since the rise of screenwriter William Monahan, who perfected the script that only requires one “star” on the set at a time with “The Departed” and “Body of Evidence.” Somewhere tonight, … Continue reading →

A hijacking case re-opened, an “inside job” suspected, “a mole” back in “Vienna.” This thriller opens April 8.

This one looks t’be a wee hoot. Style and stabbing and is that one of “The Commitments” waving her scissors and accent around? “Deadly Cuts” comes our way March 11.

Filmmakers don’t get brownie points for sticking close to formula when tackling a genre picture. But if they did, Kim Farrant could collect hers for “The Weekend Away,” a solid if generally predictable and melodramatic “bad things come to those … Continue reading →

The advertising standee dominated a hallway of my favorite cineplex for what seemed like years and years. “The Accidental Husband” was an Uma Thurman rom-com — her last shot at that genre — co-starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, taking one more … Continue reading →