When done well, a trailer can play a big part in building anticipation for an upcoming movie. It’s equally true that a bad trailer can squash any excitement you may have for the film it’s promoting. Sadly the latter is true for “Red One”, a $250 million Christmas themed action-adventure-comedy that looked significantly cheaper in … Continue reading
Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment is releasing “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” on home video in a terrific 4K Ultra HD edition complete with over two hours of special features. In 1988 director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton came together to create the hilariously enigmatic “ghost with the most”, Beetlejuice. They reunite in the fittingly named “Beetlejuice … Continue reading
Psychological horror and Hugh Grant. Now that’s a combination I couldn’t possibly turn down. It also happens to be the recipe for one of the year’s most intriguing movies. In “Heretic” Grant plays a suave and mannered Englishman who lures two young Mormon missionaries into a harrowing game of cat-and-mouse. It’s a juicy role custom-made … Continue reading
I can say without an ounce of hesitation that the Mission: Impossible film series has become one of best action franchise in (wait for it…..) movie history. No exageration…no hyperbole. The first film released nearly thirty years ago with a 34-year-old Tom Cruise beginning his run as spy extraordinaire Ethan Hunt. In recent years the … Continue reading
I personally enjoy Christmas movies. Old ones, new ones, serious ones, silly ones – there is a wide variety that my family and I watch each year. But they only really resonate with me during the Christmas season. For me that starts in earnest on the day after Thanksgiving. So watching and reviewing a new … Continue reading
Sean Baker’s “Anora” premiered with a bang, winning the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Surprisingly it’s the first American film to do so since Terrence Malick’s sublime 2011 masterpiece “The Tree of Life”. Unfortunately “Anora” falls well short of that lofty masterpiece status. Instead it’s a draining exercise in indulgent filmmaking … Continue reading
Keith & the Movies 