Film/Stage/TV Reviews

First, let’s insert the obligatory Hollywood is too reliant on prequels, sequels, and reboots spiel here, and get it out of the way. It’s absolutely and mightily true. And yet. Every now and then – […]

Jesse Plemons plays three different characters in Kinds of Kindness — an effort that won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. With his grimly funny movies about people doing cruel things […]

St. Elmo’s Fire cast members Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy. How you feel about Andrew McCarthy’s searching, earnest, frequently self-important and occasionally clueless documentary about […]

Back in 2012, composer Tom Holkenborg had the opportunity to ask director George Miller a question. It was a question that a lot of us would ask ourselves three years later when “Mad Max: Fury […]

When Taylor Swift took over The AMC at The Grove to debut “The Eras Tour” last October, cars wrapped around the block. With the official kickoff event for what would become a $261.6 million box […]

The passage of time isn’t particularly fair to most streaming series, but for the “Star Trek” streaming series on Paramount+ it’s brutal. “Star Trek: Discovery” Season 5 arrives just two years since the Season 4 […]

All of Hollywood is looking for ways to reinvent successful stories, but what happens when the original is near-perfect? You have to reinvent the wheel while the prototype is still flourishing in the market, and […]

After a three year gap between films and a strike-induced delay that prevented it from making its planned fall 2023 release date, the wait for “Dune: Part Two” is almost over. It appears to be […]

Note: The following review contains spoilers for “True Detective” Season 4, Episode 3, “Part 3” — the third hour of “Night Country.” “Be prepared,” the nurse says, as she brings Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Navarro (Kali […]