Tired of romantic comedies where you actually like the main characters? Exhausted by people acting in rational and/or intelligent fashion? Ready for a movie where you smile contentedly when the leading man gets punched in the face? Then “That Awkward Moment” might…
South Louisiana in the 80’s, we’re told in the film’s opening voice-over, was ”hell with the lid off.” Whether it was a screw-top lid is not mentioned. Maybe a canning jar, maybe not. Perhaps a pop-top? In the crime drama “Bad…
Genial and episodic, and always on the verge of loosing track of its own storyline, most of “The Monuments Men” plays like an efficient and good looking shaggy dog story told by veterans sitting around the VFW on dollar beer night. Directed…
“Pompeii” is an old-fashioned B-movie playing dress up as a 3D action-adventure epic . Like a goofy, likeable, gawky junior high kid wearing his dad’s suit (and using his dad’s steroids, too). The film stars Kit Harington as Milo, whose…
A follow-up to Lifetime’s breast cancer-themed “Five,” the anthology “Call Me Crazy: A Five Film” presents five (!) short stories revolving around the theme of mental illness. Each story is named after a different character who is dealing with mental illness, either…
First, a small complaint. Once there was a Jewish man who had talents beyond those of mortal men. He achieved what some would call miracles, and his work convinced millions of people of his special, chosen place in history. When…
Season 2 of “The Bletchley Circle” takes us back to London, circa 1952, and back in the company of everyone’s favorite quartet of former female code-breakers turned amateur sleuths. Okay, maybe not everyone’s. And I mean former code-breakers, not former females. They’re…
Based on true events, “Kill Your Darlings” tells the story of a pivotal year in the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, early in his literary life, when he was studying at Columbia. Played by Daniel Radcliffe, the straight-laced freshman Ginsberg falls under…
“Inside Llewyn Davis” stars Oscar Isaac as the titular folk-singer, struggling with his career, an elusive housecat, and his own self-destructive impulses in the 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene. He plays not enough gigs to live on, crashes on the…
On the Blu-ray box for the new actioner “Ice Soldiers,” the PR team has put a blurb that opines “Ice Soldiers” is “the best super soldier movie since the first “Universal Soldier.” Where I sit, that’s praise so faint you couldn’t see…