By Bob Grimm The future is in cataclysmic peril because we stare at our phones and blather on social media all day in the apocalyptic comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Humanity has one last […]
By Bob Grimm Ben Affleck and Matt Damon team up again for Netflix’s The Rip. This time, they’re under the direction of Joe Carnahan (The Grey … it’s a great film if you haven’t seen it) as a […]
By Bob Grimm The film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up where last June’s new zombie classic, 28 Years Later, left off. Danny Boyle, screenwriter Alex Garland and new director Nia DaCosta have officially claimed the […]
By Bob Grimm Going into Anaconda, I thought some creative folks were up to something that could be a lot of fun. First off, I thought Jack Black and Paul Rudd might be playing themselves as […]
By Bob Grimm In general, this wasn’t a great year to be on the planet. (Don’t get me started.) But it was actually a great year for cinema. In November, I passed the 30-year mark […]
By Bob Grimm Writer-director Rian Johnson has a successful trilogy with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third adventure for super-detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). By far, this is the gloomiest and most […]
By Bob Grimm Jay Kelly, a somewhat satirical look at the life of an aging movie star (George Clooney), comes to us from writer-director Noah Baumbach—which suggests that it may be a brutal look at […]
By Bob Grimm I wasn’t all that excited about a Predator movie that supposedly switched the point of view to that of the Predator, focusing on the hunter rather than the hunted. I also wasn’t […]
By Bob Grimm Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness) keep their bizarre yet awesome cinematic party going with Bugonia, their darkest pairing yet. Conspiracy-theorist Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin/sidekick, Don […]
By Juan-Carlos Selznick Trapped attentionThe Lost Bus, with its swathe of recent local history, caught some very real attention from me, even though some of it seemed to wobble between fascination and aggravation. As a […]
By Bob Grimm I criticized the original The Black Phone for being too derivative. It was a typical hostage story peppered with some decent performances and a gimmick that was meant to make the movie original, but […]
By Bob Grimm Some 43 years ago—and just 16 years after Walt Disney himself croaked—Disney made a goofy movie called Tron. The original Tron (1982) received a lot of hype for its then-groundbreaking (now comically dated) use of […]
More than 40 Chico State students helped give The Fuzzies an intricate, entertaining and creepy life By Odin Rasco What happens when the charm and magic of a children’s show is left to fester in […]
By Bob Grimm Back in the day, director Paul Thomas Anderson offered the role of Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights to Leonardo DiCaprio, who instead chose to go sink on a big boat and cement his status […]
By Juan-Carlos Selznick A number of smartly entertaining films recently encountered at the Stream & Dream Lounge seem to be flying under the radar even though they’re also streaming in plain sight. Sunday BestThis Netflix […]
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