Reviews

Effortfully discomfiting may start to describe this new hyper-articulate dramedy from Arron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7) inspired by a beloved 1950s sitcom, I Love Lucy. A behind-the-scenes look that really is more wearying than weighty given its shrewd patterning and earnest enactments.  Being The Ricardos stars Nicole Kidman (Bombshell) and Javier Bardem […]

An affectionate nod to a hardly forgotten 1980s franchise gets another reboot from Jason Reitman (Truly). Ghostbusters: Afterlife isn’t a clever blend of fantasy and comedy in what ties to embrace the supernatural more lightly than the popular streaming series Stranger Things.  Although it caters to loyal acolytes in a pleasingly retro way, leading-to familiar […]

Director Kenneth Branagh brings a warm reminiscence to his ‘Trouble’-fueled childhood in the late 1960s Northern Ireland.  Belfast has a foreboding, political quality with preteen Buddy (Jude Hill, a surrogate for Branagh) witnessing much unrest in his neighborhood between Protestants and Catholics.  Yet, its not that kind of drama, and he use of shimmery monochrome […]

This delayed well crafted sequel from lone scribe John Krasinski can be more frightful from a sense of isolation during an ongoing global pandemic. Enough to make a trip to the local cineplex outfitted with giant screens worthwhile during a forty-five day run before streaming on the studio’s streaming service.   A Quiet Place Part II […]

Promising Young Woman is compelling and at the same time uncomfortable.  Carey Mulligan’s Cassandra in the hands of outstanding direction by Emerald Fennell holds our attention as she travels a pattern of revenge that is confusing yet deliberate through out the entire script.   Cassandra is a promising young woman, or at least she was […]