By Bob Grimm It’s already been seventeen years since David Fincher released his supremely well-done Zodiac, starring Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal as a combination of detectives and reporters trying to track down […]
By Bob Grimm With Joker (2019), director Todd Phillips gave us a very popular movie that was a rip-off of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Not an homage … a rip-off. The results were big box office, massive critical acclaim […]
By Bob Grimm BFFs Brad Pitt and George Clooney join forces again for Wolfs, a relatively good time for those who choose to partake. That, of course, is easier to do if you are an […]
By Bob Grimm While it boasts a fun, sinister performance from James McAvoy, Speak No Evil is yet another watered-down remake of a superior foreign film. The 2022 Danish version of Speak No Evil stands as one of the […]
Can one of California’s oldest movie palaces be restored? By Ken Magri A local group wants to raise $1,000.000 to turn Chico’s historic El Rey Theater, which went up for sale last March, into a […]
By Bob Grimm Seeing Michael Keaton back as “the ghost with the most” does provide an initial rush, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a sequel that tries to do too much, and it unravels with an unpleasantly frantic […]
By Bob Grimm Oh, those chimpanzees. They’re so cute for the first part of their lives—until they want to rip people’s faces off because they’re super-disgusted with being confined in cages by clueless owners throwing […]
By Bob Grimm Zoë Kravitz makes a watchable—and appropriately unpleasant—directorial debut with Blink Twice, a caustic and vicious social satire that gives Channing Tatum a massive showcase. The movie doesn’t completely hold together and unravels a […]
Ripley The latest screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley is an 8-episode “limited series” on Netflix that dazzles with fine production values and an outstanding cast. Filmed in Italy, in lustrous black […]
Perfect Days (Pageant Theatre, March 15-17) is a Japanese production by a German-born auteur, the cosmopolitan septuagenarian Wim Wenders. It has won film festival prizes in France, Australia and the US, and was one of […]
The extraordinary German actress Sandra Hüller is featured in two films that are Oscar nominees for Best Picture—The Zone of Interest, which plays at the Pageant Theatre March 3, and Anatomy of a Fall, which […]
In the first weeks of 2023 (“Fundamental Cinema“), I wrote that EO, Jerzy Skolimowski’s poetic masterpiece with a donkey as its central character, was already on my Top Ten list for the year that had […]
Stream & Dream Lounge highlights, flash points and turn-ons for another difficult year, 2023. An abundance of cinematic pleasures, magic moments, and roving correspondences in these challenging times calls for an abundance of year-end best-ofs. […]
Some recent highlights from the Stream & Dream Lounge: The Killer (Netflix) David Fincher’s new film, with Michael Fassbender playing a high-priced professional assassin, strikes me as one of the very best films of the […]
With all due respect to major films with marathon running times—e.g. Oppenheimer (180 minutes), or Killers of the Flower Moon (206 minutes), quite a lot of recent viewing pleasure at the Stream & Dream Lounge […]
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