From The Conjuring Universe comes this second installment of a mid-20th Century demon raising holy hell for the Catholic Church. Set around a French boarding school four years after the 2018 original the prologue features a gruesome priestly demise that impels the Vatican to retain the services of Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga, young sister of […]
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The Equalizer 3
Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua as star, director and both producers are back for perhaps the final literation of this increasingly violent action-thriller franchise based on the CBS drama staring Edward Woodward. This time Washington’s retired Marine and intelligence officer Robert McCall is in scenic southern Italy, Sicily’s Altomonte, to serve the oppressed; his new […]
Retribution
This could be Speed in a car. The idea of folks captured in a limited space with the danger of an explosion hanging over their head. Liam Neeson’s Matt Turner is a business partner of Anders Muller (Matthew Modine). He is also in a family situation where edgy relationships exist. Son Zack (Jack Champion) […]
Golda
Maybe not the biopic of the lat Israeli Prime Minster that many may have expected. Lacking a bit in context and depth is Golda from U.S. citizen and Israeli native Guy Nattiv and the writer of ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’. As it’s stepped more in the saturnine given the tensions surrounding the Yom Kippur War fifty […]
Bottoms
Emma Seligman’s second film has an anarchic spirit in the vein of Superbad and Scary Movie and even Heathers in its progressive, if zany look at distaff lesbian teen. Her Bottoms (Elizabeth Banks serves as a producer) features Rachel Sennott at PJ and Ayo Edebiri as best friend Josie who get in over their heads […]