The story of the rock star who, due to drugs and alcohol, falls from grace is certainly nothing new. The fact that it has been done before, however, doesn’t stop the incredible impact of writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell,”… Read More ›
Roger Ebert said (or, perhaps, wrote), “No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.” Knowing that, please also know that I lament the fact that “Tea with the Dames” barely cracks 80 minutes. Directed by Roger… Read More ›
Movies featuring terrorist plots, necessarily, require a place for said plot to unfold. As in real life, the bigger and more scary the potential disaster, the more panic that can be created amongst the crowds within the film, the higher… Read More ›
What does a “Predator” movie look like when the Predator is all too often irrelevant to the proceedings? Well, you can see for yourself on Friday with the release of the Shane Black directed “The Predator.” To be sure, that… Read More ›
Last year at New York Comic Con, I covered the panel on the then upcoming Jack Ryan Amazon Prime series featuring John Krasinski. This past August, nearly a year later, the series has hit whatever the equivalent of the airwaves… Read More ›
Being a dreamer is a good thing. Wait, no, check that. Being a dreamer can be a good thing, it isn’t automatically one. There is a point at which the rubber must meet the road, and in the Francis Ford… Read More ›
Jennifer Garner’s abilities as an action hero have been known to the public since she first starred on “Alias” more than 15 years ago. Watching her return to a role that requires that sort of physicality is unquestionably the best… Read More ›
It is easy to understand the basic story outline for “Let the Corpses Tan,” a French language film opening in select cities this week. It is an armored car heist gone bad sort of affair. Or, more accurately, the heist… Read More ›
In “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” Kermit the Frog gets amnesia. Not remembering who he is, Kermit creates a new identity, Phillip Phil, and he enters the world of advertising where he comes up with the unique idea to simply tell… Read More ›
Writer/director Owen Egerton stops by the Lass is More podcast this week to talk about his newest movie, “Blood Fest.” A meta take on horror, the movie takes place at a horror movie festival gone totally wrong and comes out… Read More ›
Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, “Support the Girls” largely takes place in a Hooters-esque establishment. That is, the waitresses are scantily clad and the majority of people who dine there, the supposition goes, are there to ogle the women,… Read More ›
