Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

There is no crying, no overt expressions of grief. But we can feel the loss in this house. Everybody is “processing it,” as we say these days, an expression that sanitizes death in ways that surely Hallmark and the funeral … Continue reading →

A hundred minutes of monologues, tirades and sometimes testy exchanges filmed in black and white, “Malcolm & Marie” adds up to a tepid two hander, a “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” without the writing to come off. The dialogue and … Continue reading →

“Know Fear” is a grisly haunted house story distinguished mainly in the extensive use of the sound effect of a knife plunging into flesh. “CHUCK CHUCK CHUCK squish squish squish.” It’s a short thriller that tosses us right into “the … Continue reading →

Painter, collagist, poet, public scold, filmmaker and performance artist David Wojnarowicz cut a wide swath in the in the narrowest of narrow lanes of the New York art world of the 1980s. He was a phenomenon of AIDS era East … Continue reading →

Jason Bateman and Bobby Cannavale join the…fun? This doesn’t look funny at all, but well — we’ll just have to see. April 9 on Netflix.

Joe Manganiello, Ellar Coltrane, Helena Howard, Elena Kampouris and Thomas Lennon star in this ’80s tale of alt-rock/indie rock fans who turn “fanatic” when Manchester’s own The Smiths decide to hang it up. Joe Man-Jello as a DJ? Totally see … Continue reading →

“Sentinelle” is a French vengeance tale that dispenses with developing peripheral characters and concentrates solely on its long she-wolf heroine. But even she is short-changed in this tight but illogical skips-a step-or-three thriller. The Ukrainian model-turned actress Olga Kurylenko, of … Continue reading →

Damn. No over-budgeted, under-scripted thirty-years-too-late Eddie Murphy sequel should EVER deliver as many smiles as “Coming 2 America.” Not enough funny lines? Maybe a miscalculation, setting most of this “fish out of water” story in Africa instead of Queens? But … Continue reading →

“Xico’s Journey” is a cheerful, colorfully-animated and culturally-aware Mexican cartoon about legend and myth and two kids and a dog who want to save their picturesque village from fracking. Although it scores points for tapping into Mexican heritage and myth … Continue reading →

In April the weather should be warm enough to make this Antarctic (and Arctic) true story endurable. Norway’s greatest modern hero gets a bio pic that Samuel Goldwyn’s releasing in the US.