Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

Let Hollywood plunge headlong into the CGI animals who hear the “Call of the Wild,” the easier to manage computer-generated bears and wolves, Persians and Chihuahuas they’re shoving into more and more films. In France, they still do things the … Continue reading →

“The Scary of Sixty-First” is a lurid, bloody and somewhat misguided exploration of the crimes and mysterious death of well-connected human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in horror film form. But it’s hard to effectively comment on and condemn a notorious sex … Continue reading →

It’s hard to recall any movie that rings as hollow and false as “This is the Night.” But then, my memory isn’t what it once was. That’s not to say that this growing up Italian on Staten Island, “Coming of … Continue reading →

A tip of the hat and a hearty “Nice try” to writer-director Sean Nichols Lynch for his vampire comedy, “Red Snow.” It’s a straight-up B-movie all the way, with decent makeup and blood-sucker contact lenses and a few cute holidays-and-vampires … Continue reading →

Antonio Banderas also stars in this high gloss B picture, about pieces of eight and galleons and not about Captain Jack Sparrow coveting such treasure. For once. Holland and his stunt crew get to do a lot of Peter Parker … Continue reading →

One of the epic star vehicles of Ava Gardner‘s career earned a nice restoration a couple of years back. So if nothing else, Ava at her peak in glorious Technicolor should be lure enough to draw one to “Pandora and … Continue reading →

You read the plot description in that headline, and you see promise in the premise. So you figure “Why not watch one more Christmas movie,” right? What can go wrong with rounding up fractious family and having it out over … Continue reading →

Follows his “Bill & Ted” sequel, nicely timed to cash in on whatever comes of “Matrix Resurrections,” mixed to negative reviews be damned. That’s part of the Hollywood agent’s credo. Announce your star’s NEXT film before this one hits…or bombs.

Sinister, stark and shadowy, the new “Macbeth” conjured up by Oscar-winning writer and director Joel Coen, and starring his Oscar-winning wife Frances McDormand with Oscar-winner Denzel Washington in the title role, has the cast and production values to compete with … Continue reading →

You can have your zombie pictures — real zombies or Rob Zombie splatterfests. Spare me your “Saw” sequels and “Halloween” abattoirs. Entirely too neat and “pat” for my tastes. For film violence to mean anything, it’s got to be personal, … Continue reading →