It’s accurate to call “Happy Death Day 2U” a dumb movie, and accurate to call it a smart movie. It seems as if Blumhouse studio asked writer-director Christopher Landon (who also directed the 2017 original, […]
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This Mamet-Lumet collaboration is a masterful courtroom drama and redemption story.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child give Agent Pendergast a fresh start of sorts in his 18th novel, “Verses for the Dead” (December, hardcover). Series like the Constance trilogy and the Helen trilogy are conclusions to […]
Mamet Monday (Movie review): Mamet pens a searing yet funny look at cutthroat white-collar workers.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Before “I Am the Night,” a 2006 film explored the Black Dahlia case with a different tone.
In the tradition of great Asian cinema, “Burning” (2018) is intensely strange and immensely engrossing. Fittingly, lead actor Ah-in Yoo, as Lee Jong-su, seems to barely be giving a performance, but we’re right there with […]
Mamet Monday (Movie review): Campbell Scott stars as a man caught in a gripping puzzle he (and the viewer) can’t set aside until it’s solved.
TV review: This miniseries is an interesting experiment. But I can’t shake the sense that John Malkovich is playing PINO — Poirot in Name Only.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): This murder-comedy featured alternate endings before they were cool.