Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

There are great films, and there are movies “of their moment.” Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” is a bit of both. Harrowing and cautionary, inspiring and thanks to a healthy splash of ironic wit, damned entertaining, it’s … Continue reading →

Disney continues emptying its larger of Fox product, this 20th Century release opens next Friday.

Gritty, impoverished and with a trailer that bends towards epic. Nov. 6 https://youtu.be/lRVMe0GsdUg

Heidi Schreck is a TV writer and actress who gave the world “Billions” and “I Love Dick” after writing “Nurse Jackie.” But back when she was a teenage in small town Washington State, she was a world beater at the … Continue reading →

A WWII combat medic and Holocaust survivor meets a woman who left her combat vet husband in an otherwise empty New York bar in “The Second Sun,” a crushing bore of a screen romance starring one of writer Norman Mailer’s … Continue reading →

Of all the things necessary to make a screen thriller work, “urgency” has to rank at the top of the list. That’s conveyed via direction, editing, sometimes a pulse-pounding score, but most importantly in a script that expresses high stakes … Continue reading →

Netflix has a real prestige picture or three this holiday season. This adaptation of the room reflective, reactionary and some say self righteous redneck memoir by J. Vance has a Glenn Close Oscar nomination in its DNA.

Has Milla ever made a movie with Nic Cage? THERE’s a pitch. This one releases/streams/drive-ins what have you on Dec. 30.

God, we’ve missed THIS Nicolas Cage. Martial Arts/sci-fi mashup Nic. Bugeyed Nic. Craaaaaaazyy Nic. With Rick Yune, Frank Grillo, Tony Jaa and Marie Avgeropoulos. Nov. 20. Rick Yune, Frank Grillo

The father wants to get his kid into the exclusive Catholic school that will give his little boy the best chance at a brighter future. And it’s not going well. The admissions officer asks him a question in code. “What … Continue reading →