REVIEW: “Prey” (2022)
Ranking Arnold Schwarzenegger movies is hardly akin to examining fine art. Forgive me if that sounds condescending. It’s not meant to. I’m actually a fan of his movies. I was a teen during the 1980s...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Persuasion” (2022)
Yet another Jane Austen big screen adaptation arrives with “Persuasion”, a recent Netflix drama based on the 1817 Austen novel of the same name. The film is directed by Carrie Cracknell and stars...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pinocchio” (2022)
Walt Disney teams with Robert Zemeckis in the latest iteration of Pinocchio, the classic children’s tale taken from Carlo Collodi’s 1883 Italian book “The Adventures of Pinocchio”. More directly, it’s...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pearl” (2022)
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) I had reasonably high expectations for “X”, an unashamed ode to slasher movies and grindhouse sleaze that released earlier this...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Prey for the Devil” (2022)
2022 has been a pretty lackluster year for the horror genre. It’s been a year where “big swings” by filmmakers have become more important than good stories or (dare I say it) actual scares. It’s been a...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Poker Face” (2022)
Russell Crowe directs, writes, and stars in the new feature “Poker Face”, a puzzling movie built around a puzzling premise and hampered by puzzling execution. It’s a movie I’m still trying to wrap my...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Plane” (2023)
(CHECK OUT my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) One thing you can say about Gerard Butler – he’s certainly found his comfort zone. And these days it’s rare to see the 53-year-old Scotsman...
View ArticleREVIEW: “The Pale Blue Eye” (2022)
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) Christian Bale investigates a series of gruesome murders in 1830 Hudson Valley, New York in Scott Cooper’s “The Pale Blue Eye”, an...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pathaan” (2023)
Bursting at the seams with high-caliber action and loads of panache, “Pathaan” is an off-the-charts, full-throttle Bollywood blockbuster in every sense. Furiously directed by Siddharth Anand, this...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Project Wolf Hunting” (2022)
I’m guessing you’ve probably heard movies described as “genre mashups”, “genre stews”, or “genre blends”. Few fit the bill quite like “Project Wolf Hunting”. From writer-director Kim Hong-seon, this...
View ArticleRETRO REVIEW: “Play Misty for Me” (1971)
It’s not a stretch to say that Clint Eastwood has had an extraordinary movie career. Perhaps best known for his work as an actor, he has also excelled behind the camera. It fact, it may surprise some...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Paint” (2023)
(CLICK HERE to read my full review in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) There’s just something that feels right about Owen Wilson in an offbeat indie comedy playing a soft-spoken Bob Ross-esque television...
View ArticleREVIEW: “The Pope’s Exorcist” (2023)
Within the realm of horror movies lies a number of fun sub-genres. There’s zombie horror, vampire horror, haunted house horror, slasher horror, etc. etc. etc. Among the most explored over the years is...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Peter Pan and Wendy” (2023)
There wasn’t anything that had me itching for a new Peter Pan movie. I’ve never been a big fan of his story and haven’t really connected with the various movie adaptations we’ve gotten over the years....
View ArticleREVIEW: “Prisoner’s Daughter” (2023)
After premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, director Catherine Hardwicke’s film “Prisoner’s Daughter” is finally getting its proper release. The rather straightforwardly titled...
View ArticleREVIEW: “The Pod Generation” (2023)
Sophie Barthes returns to the director’s chair with “The Pod Generation”, her first feature film since 2014’s “Madame Bovary”. This kinda wacky, oddly alluring, and slyly funny sci-fi satire sees...
View ArticleRETRO REVIEW: “Piranha” (1978)
1978’s “Piranha” was one of many low budget B-movies that happily rode the massive success of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”. Released only one month after “Jaws 2”, the Joe Dante directed and co-edited...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Priscilla” (2023)
It was a little over one year ago that director Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” hit theaters. The vibrant and stylish biography of music icon Elvis Presley won over both audiences and critics before eventually...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pain Hustlers” (2023)
Taking on America’s devastating opioid crisis is a noble task for any filmmaker. The epidemic began in the late 1990s when the prescription of opioids for pain management began to spike. Since then...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” (2023)
I’m not sure how, but the “Pet Sematary” franchise keeps rising from the dead (cheap and obvious pun intended). The latest installment is “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines”, a Paramount+ original movie...
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