Category Archives: Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news

In November of 1957, the biggest gathering of mob bosses in Mafia history took place in tiny Apalachin, New York. Every Big Name in La Cosa Nostra showed up in upstate New York — some 60 mob bosses from across … Continue reading →

I will withhold my “What’s the point of THIS?” judgment because, well, this is a novel approach to take to a “reboot.” A “Ghostbusters” without the comedy? A sequel assuming the originals are all, or mostly, in the Harold Ramis … Continue reading →

A peak Netflix moment? Or a predictor of the Oscars? Big day for “The Irishman” and “Marriage Story,” some notice for “The Two Popes,” “Dolemite,” a near tidal wave. “Ford v Ferrari” a token nomination, “Once Upon a Time.. in … Continue reading →

The time setting is apt, the messaging of a strong woman “persisting” unmistakable. An improvement on the original?

If “Rogue One” taught us nothing, aside from the sure knowledge that it’s not hard to find somebody better than J.J. Abrams to make a “Star Wars” movie, it’s that we should never under-estimate Felicity Jones’ ability to “sell” an … Continue reading →

Well, let us see what Amazon has put on one screen within 100 miles of me, shall we?

Disney bites off a little of that @vancityReynolds snark for this one, a violent action comedy about…well, you’ll see. Yes, it’s a Fox movie. But Disney owns Fox, as the opening of this funny (ish) trailer reminds us. Next summer.

Let’s throw all those declarations that “Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach’s dissection of a divorce, is unbearably “real” because of its “honesty.” It’s not a docu-drama. It’s theatrical, melodramatic, over-the-top and no more representative of the end of a marriage than … Continue reading →

Sometimes as a journalist you catch a glimpse of something when you’re talking to a child actor. Maybe Macaulay Culkin is too interested in “performing,” distracting you as the interviewer. River Phoenix? Antic, manic, “wired” you decide later. You hear … Continue reading →

I am an audience of one at an afternoon matinee of “Playmobil: The Movie.” I am in one of the busiest cinemas in the gigantic Regal Cinemas chain. What does the rest of North America know, or at least suspect, … Continue reading →