REVIEW – “My Policeman”: Loyalties Run Stagnant, in a Query of Forbidden Love
Musician and still budding actor Harry Styles seems to have a way of never letting one forget he’s around. That might be more so still on the radio than on…
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REVIEW – “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania”: Checking Out with a Whimper, not a Bang
What is it about Hotel Transylvania: Transformania that even the biggest name involved opted out of returning? And how is it that one individual’s lack of presence somehow opens all…
REVIEW – “The Tender Bar”: Affleck Shines, Clooney Can’t Settle on Heads or Tails in Literary Dramedy
I will be blunt to start: George Clooney may be as acquired a taste as his endorsement for Nescafe. His stock may be slowly rising more behind the camera as…
REVIEW – “Being the Ricardos”: Sorkin Revisits Old Hollywood, But It’s Nothing New
Full disclosure: For as much of a retro sitcom enthusiast as I’d been up until a mass viewing exodus in college, I was never a fan of I Love Lucy….
REVIEW – “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”: Sparks, and Fur, Fly in Nontraditional Biopic
It would be impossible to imagine reliving in a time as dingy and frowzy as the Industrial Revolution. It was dirty, but it was also very productive, modernizing our world….
REVIEW – “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”: A Flashy Guide to Self-Love
In an absolute one-eighty on Amazon’s part, the tide of musical comedies has suddenly steered back in the right direction for the shoreline. Where Cinderella couldn’t shake the formula, the…
REVIEW – “Cinderella”: New Musical Ambition Held Back by Old Hits
Celebrated French author Charles Perrault (or his estate) probably never imagined his sweetly fanciful 1697 short story Cendrillon to outlast the rest of his career to latch onto the cultural…
REVIEW – “The Tomorrow War”: The Future of Sci-Fi Looks Doomed in this Alien Battle
One cannot help but feel a sense of pride for Chris Pratt being a native Washingtonian who struck big in Hollywood relatively after a pair of overnights, his starring roles…
REVIEW – “Bliss”: Quite the Opposite in Muddling, Confusing Sci-fi Romcom
Maybe it is not a joke, definitely a hard fact to remind us even if it is 2021; the optimism that comes with is best with a grain of salt….