With A Disappointing Memorial Day Box Office Debut, Solo: A Star Wars Story Isn’t Feeling Like A Star Whose Shine Can’t Be Stopped
Note: All box office figures discussed in this article are three-day weekend figures. Well, pull…
Attention Must Be Paid: Margaret Dumont
Apparently, she and Groucho conspired to spread the myth that she didn’t get the jokes.…
Disney Byways: “Lambert the Sheepish Lion”
Spin-offs are older than people realize, and Disney’s been riding that bandwagon for a long,…
Solo: A Star Wars Story Is Better Than You’d Expect A Han Solo Origin Movie To Be But Still Suffers From A Derivative Nature
Ever since Harrison Ford shot his blaster through a mosquito alien in a seedy extra-terrestrial…
Year Of The Month – In The Wee Small Hours
The cover of In The Wee Small Hours features a painting of Frank Sinatra leaning…
Year of the Month: DIABOLIQUE
“Two words, three lies.” This is how Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) dismisses any stories his…
Lunch Link – PITCH BLACK HEIST
Pitch Black Heist (2012) dir. John McClean Just to temper expectations, this is not part of…
Edgy
Lars Von Trier is being vile again. In other news, water is wet, I suppose.…
Film on the Disc: AIRPLANE!
Wall-to-wall jokes, gleeful innuendo, Leslie Nielsen, and endless quotability. All of that deserves commentary–in part…
Interior Decorating: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on All That Heaven Allows (Year of the Month)
When I recall films I’ve seen and loved, my memory most often fixates first on…