This miscast Gucci biopic doesn’t have much fashion sense. Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” tells the story of how Patrizia Reggiani left her humble beginnings to live the high life of the Gucci fashion industry, and hired a hitman to… Read More ›
Crime
Red Notice
The only thing this heist comedy for Netflix steals is your time. “Red Notice” only tickled me twice. In one scene, Dwayne Johnson has to wear a hairnet in a prison kitchen, while his cellmate Ryan Reynolds asks him why… Read More ›
Army of Thieves
A prequel even Danny Ocean would have enjoyed. “Army of Thieves” is the prequel to Netflix action horror hit from last May called “Army of the Dead,” and it’s also a spin-off on the German safecracker Ludwig Dieter, who was… Read More ›
Halloween Kills
This sequel goes for the kill, but misses the target. How is Michael Myers able to survive the fire at the end of the previous “Halloween” entry? Three things: 1: We didn’t see his carcass. 2. Horror movie icons are… Read More ›
The Many Saints of Newark
It woke up this morning and got itself some popcorn. “The Sopranos” is the next live-action series to get a movie, following “The X-Files,” “Sex & The City,” “Veronica Mars,” and “Downton Abbey,” but this one is a prequel known… Read More ›
Malignant
James Wan’s latest horror entry scares you without the jumps. As you begin to watch James Wan’s “Malignant,” you start to think it’s going to rip off “Poltergeist” with a TV static, “Rosemary’s Baby” when the main heroine has miscarriages,”… Read More ›
Kate
Netflix’s 24 Hours to Live thriller misfires. The set-up for “Kate” sounds flimsy. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays an assassin, who gets poisoned and has 24 hours to live, which should give her enough time to find her killer before she… Read More ›
Queenpins
Nothing worse than an expired coupon Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” was my Number 1 choice as the Best Film of 2013 and my Number 2 choice of the Best of the Decade, because it knew about greed,… Read More ›
No Man of God
What went on with Ted Bundy before his execution. The story of Ted Bundy is an infamous one, regarding him as a serial killer, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered young women in the 1970s. Zac Efron portrayed him quite well… Read More ›
Only Murders in the Building
Two comedy legends and a next generation star find themselves in a smart true crime comedy. Steve Martin and Martin Short, two of the best comedy collaborators in the industry, join forces with Selena Gomez on the new made-for-Hulu comedy-crime… Read More ›