Liam Neeson needs to investigate a new agent. Liam Neeson is the next actor to play detective Phillip Marlowe, after Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, and Elliott Gould, among others. “Marlowe” is also […]
Marlowe
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
A threequel that needs less shrinking and more growing. I would hate to bore the people who are expecting my review of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” but I really must let […]
Irreversible: The Straight Cut
It doesn’t work in either direction. When Gaspar Noe’s “Irreversible” premiered at Cannes back in 2002, half the audience were repulsed by its rape scene, while the other half admired Noe’s filmmaking […]
Knock at the Cabin
Find out whether these 4 strangers are crazy or not. Could the four people invading the cabin of a gay couple and their adoptive daughter really be trying to prevent the apocalypse […]
Infinity Pool
The son of David Cronenberg makes a vacation movie that’s bizarre and WTF original. Would the following be considered torture porn? In the fictional island La Tolga, there’s a secret facility, where […]
Alice, Darling
Anna Kendrick keeps you involved from start to finish. There’s a low key aspect to how an abusive relationship can threaten a spouse’s mental state. In “Alice, Darling,” Anna Kendrick’s Alice is […]
Missing
An entertaining follow-up to “Searching,” if not equal to. “Missing” is the spiritual sequel to the 2018 breakout hit “Searching,” which told the story of a father searching for his teenage daughter […]
Plane
It’s just plane crazy fun. The last two Gerard Butler movies I’ve seen were “Greenland” and “Copshop,” which both knew how to have fun with their leading Scottish man. Now, we have […]
M3gan
A satire on creepy dolls and the crap that comes out of kids’ mouths. You know you’re in trouble when the commercials in “M3gan” promote robotic dolls-PurRpetual Petz-that look like if Furbys, […]
The Pale Blue Eye
Now, this is a detective Christian Bale period piece. After labeling “Amsterdam” as the worst film of 2022, here’s Christian Bale in a much better murder mystery known as “The Pale Blue […]
