You mess with the unicorn, you get the horn. This is me talking to the parents who see the word “Unicorn” on the “Death of a Unicorn” poster. This is not for […]
Death of a Unicorn
Bob Trevino Likes It
A not father not daughter story worth liking. “Bob Trevino Likes It” begins with a young woman being disowned by her father named Robert Trevino, and trying to reconnect with him on […]
The Electric State
As fun as rusted metal. I’m told that the new Netflix movie “The Electric State” cost $320 million to make. And after getting a look at the film in a New York […]
Novocaine
No Jack Quaids were injured during the making of this film. I praise action comedies that are either actually funny and entertaining or seriously misunderstood. In fact, when I slammed last year’s […]
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Woo-Hoo! We have ourselves a Daffy and Porky movie! Some of the most delightful Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoons I’ve grown up include “Tick Tock Tuckered,” “Baby Bottleneck,” “The Prize Pest,” […]
Mickey 17
A cloning experiment with laughs and great visuals. Bong Joon-Ho deserved that Oscar for “Parasite,” and “Mickey 17” is his first entry in years. It’s riveting that, unlike some movies which shall […]
Adult Best Friends
Real BFFs make a real movie with laughs and truth. I got into a conversation with my friend the other night about how the horror romcom “Heart Eyes” didn’t connect with audiences […]
Riff Raff
It makes a killing of words and bullets. What makes “Riff Raff” the latest in a series of Tarantino-inspired films are its choice of characters, how they use their dialogue, what needs […]
My Dead Friend Zoe
A consistent dramedy about a solider who lost her wisecracking friend. So we start off with two army friends serving in Afghanistan who sing to Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” have some fun being themselves, […]
Ex-Husbands
These boys need some family therapy, and we do care about them. We start at a movie theater when the dentist Peter (Griffin Dunne) finds out that his father Simon (Richard Benjamin) […]
