This animated sequel removes its split ends, and makes a much better hairstyle. I don’t know what kind of good luck charm I have, because so far this year, sequels to movies […]
Trolls: World Tour
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
This animal documentary sinks its claws into the people and tigers. Ever since the COVID-19 epidemic, I’ve heard all the talk about how popular the new Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, […]
Coffee & Kareem
Just be glad this ugly cop comedy doesn’t last for “48 Hours.” I remember saying in my review of “Like a Boss:” “Something tells me I might see something worse this later […]
Delicatessen, The City Lost Children, and Amelie
French cinema at its goofiest and dazzling level. I really passion the bizarre and wacky humor and visual world of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a French filmmaker, who provides us some of the […]
Cotton Club, 1900, Night Moves, MacBeth, Marvin Gardens, and Miami Blues
Polanksi, De Niro, Coppola, Baldwin, Nicholson, and Hackman-all part of some past selections. A friend of mine has loaned me some of his DVDs from his collection, and given our Coronavirus nightmare […]
The Hunt
A cinematic hate letter to our country. At a time when the Coronavirus is attacking the world, and plaguing its people and the movie industry, Universal Pictures has found the audacity to […]
Bloodshot
This comic book adaptation goes in the paper shredder. Vin Diesel is one of the top action stars in the entertainment world, but what the Hell was he thinking when he starred […]
Spenser Confidential
Get ready for Mark Wahlberg’s made-for-Netflix flick. “Spenser Confidential” looks and feels like a made-for-Netflix movie withs its photography, narrative, and nonstop action; and it is. But it’s also a funny and […]
The Burnt Orange Heresy
This picture isn’t worth a thousand words. The most dazzling art movies I’ve seen this past decade include “Renoir,” “Tim’s Vermeer,” and “Never Look Away.” These films rank with the giants, because […]
Wendy
This independent version grows up way too fast. Writer/director Benh Zeitlin, the genius behind the dazzling “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” has made “Wendy,” an alternate version of the “Peter Pan” story […]
