“Cobra Kai” Season 6, Part 3 (Netflix) features a bizarre mix of the awful and the amazing. Ultimately it leaves us feeling good as it
“Anora” (2024) takes the “stripper with a heart of gold meets white knight” fairy tale (most famously seen in “Pretty Woman”) and turns it on
“Den of Thieves” (2018) riffed on “Heat” (1995), and writer-director Christian Gudegast continues to be inspired by classic crime actioners in “Den of Thieves 2:
Have Kleenex ready, cuz I mean, damn. In “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” (2024), the “S” doesn’t stand for Superman, nor is it an alien
Sometimes George Miller feels like unleashing two hours of action; sometimes he feels like telling a character story (albeit still with more and better action
In “Strange Darling” (2024), writer-director JT Mollner shows that one of cinema’s most generic plots – a serial killer on the prowl – can be
So many modern horror movies shoot straight for the trash bin that I feel I should point out that while “Cuckoo” is a bad movie,
Hugh Grant’s armchair theologian in “Heretic” points out that the Hollies’ “The Air that I Breathe” begat Radiohead’s “Creep” which begat Lana del Rey’s “Get
“Juror #2” is another film that posits that the American justice system is severely flawed – but I’m not entirely sure if it’s on purpose.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child let their interest in 1881 New York run wild in “Angel of Vengeance” (August, hardcover), the 22nd Pendergast novel and