If you can adjust to the stilted, hipster-iffic dialogue, there’s a lot to like in the latest from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig and based on the acclaimed 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, it’s an esoteric mash-up of genres (sci-fi, comedy, romance, drama), punctuated with biting […]
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Christmas at the Drive-In
Co-starring for a third time together in a schmaltzy holiday TV movie, Danica McKellar and Neal Bledsoe keep the Christmas spirit kinda afloat with a cute but ultimately forgettable tale about a big city real estate developer (Bledsoe) threatening to tear down the local drive-in. Of course, this is much […]
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Holiday Harmony
Musical theater actress Annelise Cepero stars in this predictable but still somewhat decent bit of Christmastime schmaltz about a wandering minstrel looking for her big break. When she gets the call to come to Hollywood, she only makes it as far as Oklahoma before her van breaks down, stranding her […]
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Based in the same world as ‘Knives Out’ but with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc as the only connecting thread, this fantastic whodunnit stars Ed Norton, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, and more. Just as good as (if not better than) the original, writer-director Rian Johnson’s mystery not […]
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The Fabelmans
Director (and co-writer) Steven Spielberg’s latest is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy growing up with a love of movie-making. The story of wide-eyed wonder we may have been expecting (or hoping for), however, is replaced by revelations of a contentious household, a band of high school bullies, and […]
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Strange World
The folks behind Disney’s ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ (director Don Hall and screenwriter Qui Nguyen) re-team for this animated adventure about explorers who find themselves stranded in a mysterious land with no way home. Dennis Quaid, Gabrielle Union, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lucy Liu lead the voice cast, and the […]
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The Menu
This sharp and biting satire of modern-day restaurant culture is as black (and bloody) as comedy can be without being truly a horror movie (or is it?). Ralph Fiennes stars as the top-level chef at a frou-frou restaurant on a private island, with dinner guests including Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, […]
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Spirited
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another way to give ‘A Christmas Carol’ a new spin, along comes this hilarious and clever musical effort from ‘We’re the Millers’ scribe Sean Anders, who directed and co-wrote. Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell have infectious and palpable buckets of fun singing […]
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Slumberland
Based on the century-old comic strip ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’, this fantastical (and fantastic), wildly inventive ride from director Francis Lawrence (‘Water for Elephants’, ‘The Hunger Games’) is a visual treat, chock-full of marvelous visual effects, but it’s also a thrilling and heartfelt story about a young, orphaned girl who […]
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
Based on the 2016 bestseller, this no-holds-barred dysfunctional family comedy centers on a pair of black sheep siblings who have to travel to England for their posh half-sister’s wedding, much to their delight of their collective mother. Starring Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, and Ben Platt, it’s a little bit raunchy, […]
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