Greetings again from the darkness. In decades past, we wouldn’t have been surprised in the least to see a movie starring Jack Nicholson and Dennis Quaid. In fact, in 1973 Jack co-starred with Dennis’ brother Randy in one of my favorite films, THE LAST...
“Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family. The film is directed by award-winning filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp, with a screenplay by Chris Kekaniokalani Bright...
Wolf Man has great visual effects and some effective (even if predictable) jump scares. It is supported by interesting premises and has a perfect isolated setting. And the actors play their parts decently enough. However, the overall story is a bit dull and...
Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.. EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY: David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Chris Brock PRODUCED BY: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie BASED ON THE...
Greetings again from the darkness. Even among sports fans and women’s activists, Mildred Burke is not a household name. Writer-director Ash Avildsen and co-writer Alston Ramsay set out to correct this by adapting Ms. Burke’s own writing and the 2010 book...
Greetings again from the darkness. John Lithgow frequently plays likable characters that take advantage of his innate ability to connect with viewers as an ‘every-man’ type – often reminding us of people we know. However, over his career that spans...
The 2025 release of Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII is accompanied by the live album, set for release by Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music, on CD, Digital Audio, and for the very first time in Dolby Atmos and on vinyl, from 2 May. Pink...
Written and directed by Iraq War Veteran Ray Mendoza and Civil War’s Alex Garland, and starring D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman,...
Directed by: Trey Edward Shults Written by: Trey Edward Shults & Abel Tesfaye & Reza Fahim Produced by: Abel Tesfaye, p.g.a., Reza Fahim, p.g.a., Kevin Turen, p.g.a., Harrison Kreiss, p.g.a. Cast: Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan Synopsis: A...
Below are recaps of some of the short films I watched at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. FISHMONGER (25:30) No rules apply to film festival shorts and writer-director Neil Ferron and co-writer Alexandra Dennis-Renner succeed in pushing the envelope with their...