Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

This opens February 4. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Michael Pena, Donald Sutherland, the world’s ending and “Don’t Look Up” is no laughing matter to Mr. “2012” and “Independence Day,” Roland Emmerich.

The wrestling empire that is WWE dives even deeper into movies with “Rumble,” an animated film that they made through Paramount Animation, and had slated for theatrical release earlier this year. “Rumble,” based on a graphic novel about a world … Continue reading →

This is an altogether more interesting list than the half-hearted Golden Globes glob dumped earlier this AM. Lots of love for “Licorice Pizza,” “Belfast,” “CODA…” But I have to say, honoring out a somewhat hamhanded turn by Lady Gaga and … Continue reading →

April 8, this one opens in a cinema near you.

Well, Lady Gaga got some love, voters remembered Jessica Chastain’s Tammy Faye Baker turn. And they think “Dune” and “Power of the Dog” are best pic worthy. Wait, these guys lost their TV deal in a corruption, racism and sexism … Continue reading →

MovieNation, spreading cinema throughout the land, one DVD, one poorly framed pic and one small town or city library at a time. This year, I’ve donated DVDs to libraries in West Va., Va., NC, SC, Ga. and scattered corners of … Continue reading →

Well, this is an unexpected pleasure, an Oz-wise kids’ comedy with wit, slang and a little edge. “Back to the Outback” is an Australian “Madagascar,” an “escape from the zoo” comedy that leans into the continent/country’s reputation for having more … Continue reading →

Time-proven people-in-peril horror formulas cross borders and cultures. That’s true in “Roh,” a somewhat effective tale of terror set in the forests of Malaysia. That’s where a mother (Farah Ahmad), her tween daughter (Mhia Farhana) and younger son (Harith Haziq) … Continue reading →

Although Shaun and his fellow Mossy Bottom Farm sheep will never replace Wallace & Gromit as my favorite Aardman characters, they get themselves into a fine mess in “Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas.” Yes, basically every Shaun story, … Continue reading →

A little of the absurdist madness of 1960s cinema lives on in “Last Words,” a sort of “Waiting for Goddard” End Times tale about the last people on post-apocalyptic Earth making a movie about themselves. Based on a novel by … Continue reading →