They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for May, 2022
Emergency (2022)
It would not surprise me if Carey Williams’ Emergency somehow found itself among the year’s Best Picture nominees next January. I know, I know. That’s a bold statement, but I want to make sure that I’m not misunderstood. It’s not that I think that Emergency is a grand achievement or anything. I think its a very good film […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first step into a . . . larger world?
I do not step into a new Star Wars property with light feet. I’m an original fan, Class of ’77. In fact, I’m a super-fan, as is my wife. We’re crazy for this stuff. You should see our living room. The occasion of anything new always comes with a bit of excitement, and the new […]
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022)
The most surprising thing about The Bob’s Burgers Movie is that it doesn’t feel like epic. Previous attempts to raise a prime time animated property onto the big screen, The Simpsons Movie and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, have successfully ballooned up their world and their population of characters to fit the format. Those films […]
Chip ‘n Dale’s Rescue Rangers (2022)
The tagline for Chip ‘n Dale’s Rescue Rangers proudly announces that “It’s not reboot, it’s a comeback.” Actually it’s a confusing morass of both, plus an update, a remake, a follow-up, a rehash, and a badly rendered nostalgic day-trip. I challenge anyone to nail down exactly what this movie is. My interpretation is that it is […]
George Carlin’s American Dream (2022)
I have a feeling that if George Carlin had espoused his views in any medium other than comedy, then he might have been assassinated. Yet, because his views were couched in the comforts of the format of stand-up, his tirades against such collar-tugging issues as politics, religion, sex, death, greed, corruption and the general backwards […]
Senior Year (2022)
Netflix’s Senior Year is an annoying hi-concept comedy that takes a potentially interesting premise and waterlogs it with bad sitcom-style writing. An overcaffeinated 12-year-old could have written this. The subject in question is what happens when a high school senior gets into an accident, slips into a coma and wakes up 20 years later suddenly […]
The Innocents (2021)
Norwegian director Eskil Vogt got a double-honor at this year’s Academy Awards, first by getting a writing nomination along with his collaborator Joachim Trier for The World Person in the World and also saw his film nominated for Best International Feature. That film, about the adventures of a young woman that could easily be written […]
Around the World in 80 Days (2022)
I hated this movie. I really did. I know full-well that it was not made for my 50 year-old brain but I think that a child would be bored by it. It does no service to the story from which it gets its name. Give your kids the book instead, you’ll be doing them a […]
