Co-writer/ director Todd Phillips’s neo noir origins story Joker is smart and sophisticated, slick and strong, proficient, powerful and pungent, but it is also incredibly nasty, dislikeable and unpleasant. A full-on horror movie portrait of […]
Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]
Henry Golding gives a tender portrayal of a man trying to reconnect with the place he once called home in Hong Khaou’s poignant meditation on cultural displacement. Writer-director Hong Khaou’s second feature film Monsoon (2019) […]
Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s 1939 Paramount Pictures screwball comedy music romance movie Honeymoon in Bali quickly reunites Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray, the stars of the same year’s hit Cafe Society, along with its director, […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]
Director Philip Leacock’s disappointing 1960 drama sequel Let No Man Write My Epitaph is a rather sleazy, tatty and threadbare melodrama about Nick Romano Jr (James Darren), a tenement boy from Chicago’s wrong side of […]
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