Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

  There’s an opinion, common in certain film fan communities on the Internet, that carries the belief that kids’ movies are too treacly, inoffensive and mild-mannered for the little darlings’ own good. I don’t necessarily think they’re wrong. Children are … Continue reading →

The sky is falling, the virus is spreading and nicknaming the pandemic after the blundering, ignorant dunces mismanaging it doesn’t help. So, while we still can, let us brave the Trumpdemic and see this comic book release, which the Sony … Continue reading →

Yeah, they moved it to April. Might help. Might hurt this kid-and-Dave Bautista action comedy. Probably not too violent, but you never know. Anyhoo, looks funny. Love that Dave.

There’s something inherently tone-deaf in a gory satire cooked up by Hollywood “elites” mocking liberal “elites” hunting “deplorables” for sport. Maybe the film schooled screenwriters of “The Hunt” have a firm grasp of liberal tropes — the ones Fox News … Continue reading →

    Juno Temple delivers a dazzling turn as an aspiring singer/songwriter struggling to protect and look out for the schizophrenic producer who “discovered” her in “Lost Transmissions.” As Hannah, she turns manic with fear over what could become of … Continue reading →

The image is stark and iconic — a lone house, fenced, construction site devastation all around it — a single man resisting the march of  “progress.” But there’s no vast supply of balloons to lift Stacey Ryan’s trailer “Up” and … Continue reading →

An inspirational Christian music romance runs into the limitations common to the faith-based genre in “I Still Believe,” a bland tear-jerker that lacks the drama or commitment to wholly come off. This true story of singer-songwriter Jeremy Camp’s “love of … Continue reading →

With studios scrambling to move their promising product off the shelves and into later post-Corona virus release dates, one does wonder if Universal isn’t happy just to get “The Hunt,” delayed by its satiric bloody, “liberal gun nut” satire message, … Continue reading →

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Just a couple of days ago the evolutionary biologist and religion-debunking gadfly Richard Dawkins, whom I follow on Twitter, tweeted the hopeful thought that some British personage making a statement the world was taking seriously heralded “the return of the … Continue reading →