A well-intended, but problematic movie with one character we like and one character we hate. Julio Torres is an actor whose last two movie roles were in “Together, Together” and “Nimona,” and […]
A well-intended, but problematic movie with one character we like and one character we hate. Julio Torres is an actor whose last two movie roles were in “Together, Together” and “Nimona,” and […]
Ethan Coen’s solo debut likes lesbianism and goofy crime capers. I’m a member of the Chicago International Film Festival, which even entitles me to emails about screenings that I can’t attend because […]
A Tim Burton wannabe you want to bury in the ground. “Lisa Frankenstein” is a teen horror romcom that feels like it has been stitched together from parts of “Edward Scissorhands,” “Sweeney […]
Predictable and confusing plot twists make this espionage action comedy a disappointment. Like “The Lost City” from two years ago, you see your own film version of a popular book and then […]
This wise fertility comedy becomes over easy. “Scrambled” is an independent comedy that dealing with fertility and womanhood. Never seeing a trailer but acknowledging the premise, I wanted something unique and complex […]
We can all see in the dark here. There isn’t much theatrical kids movies in theaters at the moment, so it would make sense to that “Migration” and “Wonka” are what the […]
Too many F-bombs and cliches bring down Snoop Dogg’s football comedy. My favorite Snoop Dogg movie of all time is “Soul Plane,” when he played the pop Huggy Bear. In fact, as […]
I’m dreaming of death in the workplace. In the new Indie romantic dramedy “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” Daisy Ridley plays a socially awkward officer worker named Fran, who barely says anything […]
Kevin Hart’s plane heist movie is in a no-fly zone. 20 years after doing his own “Airplane!” rip-off with “Soul Plane,” Kevin Hart is back with another plane movie, but in the […]
These types of action comedies need couples therapy. Last month, AppleTV+ gave us “The Family Plan” with Mark Wahlberg as a family man who hasn’t told his wife he was a covert […]