First movie of the new year, first review, and while you can’t expect much from a Tiffany Haddish flick, “Like a Boss” is a step in the wrong direction for everyone involved. Salma Hayek previously worked with Miguel Arteta on “Beatriz at Dinner,” a film that was among 2017’s best. “Like a Boss” could effortlessly be one of 2020’s worst, which of course, is why it’s a […]
The first minutes of dialogue out of Jesse Eisenberg’s mouth, his twitch, that stutter, and you realize he is yet again playing the same character, himself. Oscar-nominated for “The Social Network,” Eisenberg might be one of the most boring actors to watch in mainstream films working today. “The Hummingbird Project” has him playing another facet
From the director of “The Expendables 3” comes a film that’s as predictable and by the books as you can get in the action genre. If there are surprises along the way, it’s at the monstrous running time and complete change of direction in subject matter. “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” has a tonal problem. Poor Gary
There are more great elements working for Beatriz at Dinner than against it, at the forefront, Selma Hayek. Mike White’s screenplay harks back to the first time he worked with director Miguel Arteta on The Good Girl (2002). That was a snappy, bold, but honest story about relationships. Beatriz at Dinner is the same vein
When your film is directed by a former reality star, you can only expect so much. How to be a Latin Lover opens like a Ferell/Stiller type comedy, with an explosive death scene played for laughs rather than heartbreak. That low brow comedy remains through the entire film, nearly mirroring Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy. The
Italian director Matteo Garrone has changed what I consider visionary after his horror fantasy Tale of Tales. With Disney doling out forgettable fairy tales right and left, and large musical productions like Into the Woods, the origin of the fairy tale has been lost and forgotten. No, I am not talking about Grimm’s fairy tales,
“Kill Bill” redefined the female action genre over a decade ago, now in 2015 filmmakers are still trying to recapture what Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman delivered. “Lucy” disappointed last year, and “Everly” is this latest attempt to combine sexy women and violence. It isn’t that we don’t want to see someone like Oscar nominated