A new documentary on legendary singer Liza Minnelli has a solid start, with an introduction that makes us feel like we’re about to experience something important and, well, terrific. And the set-up also presents a very interesting question: What do you do when your world famous mother (one of the most recognizable people on the […]
Jude Law stars in dramatic crime thriller “The Order” as FBI agent Terry. It’s the 1980s, and Terry moves to the Pacific Northwest, hoping for a little more of a laid-back life, even though he’s still on the job. Well that’s not going to happen because a bunch of robberies are taking place. The criminals: […]
“The Gutter” is the kind of comedy you’d probably find on Cable TV at 1am. It has that spirit. You flip through the channels and go, “What is this goofy, absurd sports comedy?” It’s wild, outrageous, random and ridiculous… but I stuck with it, and it’s far from the worst movie experience of 2024. There […]
“My Spy: The Eternal City” is the sequel to the 2020 action comedy “My Spy”, which was originally supposed to go to theaters and then Amazon acquired it for a Prime Video release early on in the COVID pandemic. I kinda like that film. Not amazing, but unique and entertaining enough, with Dave Bautista in […]
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” arrives about four and a half years after the third installment, “Bad Boys For Life”, which came out in January 2020. It was the biggest movie of that year because of the COVID pandemic. And it’s also been a little over two years since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on […]
1971’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are two of my 100 favorite films of all-time. I consider both adaptations of the classic Roald Dahl story to be brilliant. Both Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp deliver powerful versions as the fascinating, multi-dimensional, dynamic chocolate-maker extraordinaire. When I learned […]
“She Came to Me” is hard to describe. Looking at the poster, with a New York City backdrop behind stars Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, you might think it’s a love triangle romantic comedy And maybe, since it is set in The Big Apple, you might predict it’s one of those rom-coms filled […]
Writer/director John Carney knows how to make music shine in his movies. His breakthrough 2007 drama “Once” featured the Oscar-winning song “Falling Slowly”. Tunes performed by Keira Knightley and Adam Levine rocked in “Begin Again”. And “Sing Street” is one of my 20 favorite films of the past 10 years. So my expectations were high […]
“Jules” is “E.T. AARP”. Milton, a 78-year-old small-town Pennsylvania resident (played by Ben Kingsley) discovers a spaceship in his backyard. Milton’s first instinct is to call 911, which he does — but, of course, the operator doesn’t believe him. Soon an alien emerges from craft. From the start of the film we’re led to believe […]
“Gigi & Nate” is inspired by the true story of a young man and his life-changing friendship with a service animal, who happens to be a capuchin monkey. 17-year-old Nate Gibson (played by Charlie Rowe) was just weeks away from starting college when he contracted meningitis, which resulted in him becoming a quadriplegic. Some of […]