Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

The screenwriter who gave us “Whiplash” makes her splashy (sorry) directing debut with “The Novice,” a movie about an insanely competitive college coed who takes up competitive rowing, where the competition takes over her. Because if there are two things … Continue reading →

This Jan 28 “high school reunion afterparty where the shallow, influencer host gets murdered” has no “true crime podcast hook, thank heavens. But Tiffany Haddish is the cop looking over a whole lot of suspects. Zoe Chao, Sam Richardson, Ike … Continue reading →

This Michelle Yeoh star vehicle about an immigrant who is “the only hope” opens in March. Pretty dazzling trailer. Jamie Leigh Curtis and James Hong star in this A24 release.

I can’t recall ever dumping on a “Spider-Man” movie, and I see no reason to start now. Yes, they’re as repetitive and formulaic as the other franchises in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But they never fail to find the cute … Continue reading →

It’s animated and out in April.

How well do you figure the “National Treasure” movies played, how easily understandable were they to international audiences with even less knowledge of the arcana of American history than the average U.S. Joe? That’s something I pondered while watching a … Continue reading →

This send up of Cage’s rep, image and last dozen years of career choices, not all of them “Pig,” could go either way…great or not so much. What do you think, based on this first teaser?

Of all the “reconsiderations” that this fall’s glorious crop of big screen biographies has imposed long-held preconceptions, none more alters our view of its subjects than “Being the Ricardos,” Aaron Sorkin’s revival of the “I Love Lucy” of myth and … Continue reading →

A fatherless kid and future writer comes of age in the working class Long Island of the ’70s and ’80s, mentored by an autodidact uncle in “The Tender Bar,” a film based on a memoir by J.R. Moehringer. It makes … Continue reading →

Icky in that “Human Centipede” way, as excruciating as any torture porn thriller, and damned ridiculous by the time all is said and done, the Spanish thriller “Dos” or “Two” sets up a simple, nasty problem and fails to engage … Continue reading →