Reviews

A rambling hybrid has a caustic charm to it that looks at the elite and consumer culture.  The Menu went through some changes in lead actress and director, but still morphs with zesty aura that often dabbles in highbrow horror.  In this psychological tingling  that actors that make the most of their roles are Ralph […]

A historical biographical drama from Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu has a speculative air about its narrative yet still carries enormous power.   From familiar structuring as it proceeds from Chicago to Mississippi Till offers up intrepid defiance as well as galvanizing outrage to propel an impactful movement.  The death of a beloved son from alleged […]

This latest exotically set comedy from the writer/director of Mamma Mia! Who also penned The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its follow-up has two bona fide stars at his disposal, Julia Roberts and George Clooney.  Now, in Ticket To Paradise, their fifth on-screen collaboration continues to display an innate charisma and spunky rapport.  But filmmaker/co-scenarist […]

The script for Lyle spends more time around the family that moves into the apartment Lyle began to live in when purchased by Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem), purchased him from a location that sold unusual exotic animals.  When Lyle refused to sing (he is a singing crocodile) he is abandoned in the attic of […]

Perhaps a companion piece to American Hustle is this semi-historical loopy conspiracy opus with plenty of moving parts in the story line and characters connected to the 1933 Business Plot.  David O. Russell doesn’t have the film’s sinewy sophistication around ‘Abscan’, but plenty of an enjoyably amusing incident around such scandalous derring-do surrounding a doctor (Christian […]