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Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Roadhouse (2024)
Not that anyone cares, but there is a remake of Roadhouse that Amazon Prime has allowed to skip theaters I might presume because the studio was smart enough to know that this pointless 80s nostalgia retread is a difficult sell over the sequel powerhouses of GHOSTBUSTERS or DUNE PART TWO or KUNG FU PANDA 4. […]
Animal Kingdom (2024)
I’ll admit, I don’t normally think of a Sci-Fi fantasy coming out of France, but . . . here we are. Tim Cailly’s Animal Kingdom, which got a lot of kudos when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last yearworks because it takes it oddball premise and attaches it to a scenario that we […]
Late Night With the Devil
Late Night With the Devil is about as fascinating as it is frustrating. It’s the same problem that I had with GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE but, even at its flaws, I liked this one a lot better because even with its flaws, it is wildly entertaining and features a star-making performance by David Dastmalchian. Framed as […]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
I saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife for the first time yesterday morning because I knew that I was going to see Frozen Empire today. That film broke my heart. It was laughless, listless, needless and retreated to an endless and frustrating series of callbacks to the first movie and recycled the plot without doing anything new with […]
The 96th Academy Awards: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? . . . or, at least, on Tuesday?
The 96th Academy Awards are now in the history books. Are they one for the ages? Nah. You’ll talk about it tomorrow, but by Tuesday you’ll have mostly forgotten about it. There was no physical violence. The host shenanigans were mostly held in check. The winners stuck more or less to the predictions (out of […]
My annual (and confidently accurate) Oscar predictions
My prediction accuracy remains about 90%, adding in for surprises. This year, it’s best to best on Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer. Best PictureThe Nominees:American Fiction | Anatomy of a Fall | Barbie | The Holdovers | Killers of the Flower Moon | Maestro | Oppenheimer | Past Lives | Poor Things | The Zone of […]
They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those filmmakers whose filmography would be the envy of any amount of unsuccessful but still aspiring young directors struggling to make a name for themselves. His best-known work is 1992’s BELLE EPOQUE which brought him the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. I admire that film a great deal, […]
