The Last Voyage of the Demeter registers as competent but uneven, with its evident artistic intent barely justifying the quarts of blood spilt as its plot unfolds.
Movie & Television Reviews
‘With This Light’: The inspiringly subversive and ‘naughty’ Sister Maria Rosa Leggol
“With This Light,” a documentary releasing in theaters Aug. 11 and then to streaming platforms, tells of the apostolic dynamism of Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, a Franciscan sister known as the “Mother Teresa” of Honduras.
Movie Review: ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
Seafood goes bad, very bad, very quickly. So, too, does the dead fish-scented sequel “Meg 2: The Trench” (Warner Bros.)
Box office hit ‘Sound of Freedom’ draws kudos, concerns from human trafficking experts
A summer box office hit is garnering both kudos and concerns for its approach to the issue of child trafficking.
Movie Review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’
In rebooting a decades-old franchise with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount), director and co-writer Jeff Rowe has the titular testudines take a meditative turn.
Movie Review: ‘Talk to Me’
Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”
Videogame Review: ‘Resident Evil 4’
Good but gruesome more or less sums up “Resident Evil 4” (Capcom).
Movie Review: ‘Haunted Mansion’
Those who enter “Haunted Mansion” (Disney) in search of laughs will likely come away from it more satisfied than those who go in seeking eerie chills.
Movie Review: ‘Barbie’
Life in plastic may be fantastic but the tedious ideology-driven comedy “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) is not. Although genuinely objectionable elements are relatively few, moreover, this is distinctly not a movie for the age group to which the figurine of the title is primarily marketed.
A look at Labor Unions on Film
The onset of overlapping strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has put Hollywood on hiatus.
Movie Review: ‘Oppenheimer’
If writer-director Christopher Nolan’s impressive but uneven portrait “Oppenheimer” (Universal) is anything to go by, famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly complex man.
Fundamental issues raised by twin Hollywood strikes
The 160,000 actors and 11,500 screenwriters involved in the action against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are concerned about two interrelated threats to their livelihood.