I remember several years ago seeing the crowdfunding campaign for Sean Whalen’s directorial debut Crust, a film about a sock monster who helps a man get...
Film Reviews Smile 2Director: Parker FinnParamount Pictures, Paramount Players, Temple Hill EntertainmentIn Theaters: 10.18 The year is 2024, the wasteland is barren. Horror movie fans, critics...
Recently, I watched Die Alone, directed by Lowell Dean. Dean wields his filmmaking skills like a master surgeon with a scalpel. This movie is full of...
“Smile 2” is a genuinely horrific plunge into terror. Writer-director Parker Finn revives his 2022 creation with a sequel of real ambition. Dude spent a LOT...
Unexpected phone rings received in the middle of the night aren’t usually the bearer of good news. In “Home Again” writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s middling LA-based dramedy...
Naomi Scott in Smile 2. Photo: Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection Smile 2 has one genuinely good idea, which is that the everyday life of a messed-up pop...
1/5 stars Jackie Chan’s latest family-oriented action caper, Panda Plan, closes with a title card stating that “no animals were harmed in the making of this...
I’m a huge fan of genre mashups, so a film like Astral Plane Drifter is right up my alley. A film that combines comedy, Kung Fu,...
Arts We Live In TimeDirector: John CrowleyFilm4, SunnyMarch and Shoebox FilmsIn Theaters 11.18 Laughter, tears, the joy of love, the pain of loss and Andrew Garfield....
A little holiday cheer is expressed and even more is shown, or at least sampled, in “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point.” And almost nothing is explained....
