It’s kinda weird for a film to have such a rabid cult following well before it’s ever seen. But such was the case for “Barbie”, the new film from director Greta Gerwig based on the popular Mattel fashion dolls which first launched way back in 1959. Many of the film’s passionate fans were brought onboard … Continue reading
I’m sure you’ve heard it said the certain actors or actresses make whatever movie they’re in better? Sir Michael Caine is a prime example. The 90-year-old Englishman has had a sparkling career dating back to his first big screen role in 1950’s “Morning Departure”. Thankfully he is still working and still making movies better for … Continue reading
1973’s “Serpico” was almost a much different movie. By that I don’t mean a different spin or a different genre. I mean there were some dramatically different creatives first attached to the gritty biographical crime drama. Sam Peckinpah was once in line to direct but eventually backed out. But the kicker was Robert Redford and … Continue reading
In a year that is showering us with cinematic treats such as the latest Mission: Impossible movie, a new Martin Scorsese epic, and the second chapter in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” (just to name a few), no movie has had me more excited than Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”. This historical thriller is based on the 2005 biography … Continue reading
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) Huel Taylor makes his directorial debut in the ambitious yet uneven “They Cloned Tyrone”. At its best this wild genre mashup feels like what we would get if the Coen brothers made a 1970s blaxploitation movie. At its shakiest the film has a hard … Continue reading
What can I say, I’ve been a sucker for Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded adventures of Hercule Poirot. Branagh has directed and starred in 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and 2022’s “Death on the Nile”. Now he returns with “A Haunting in Venice”, his third Agatha Christie adaptation that follows the ace detective as he solves … Continue reading
