Weekly Archive

  Happy Chanukah   From the Big Screen: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) In the newest entry in the Marvel Universe, Shang-Chi spent his childhood being

From the Big Screen: Reminiscence (2021) Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost

From the Big Screen: PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) The PAW Patrol is on a roll. When their biggest rival, Humdinger, becomes mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking

  Happy Halloween   From the Big Screen: The Suicide Club (2021) Welcome to hell -— a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of

From the Big Screen: Old (2021) M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller follows a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a

From the Big Screen: Free Guy (2021) A bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game decides to become the hero

From the Big Screen: Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Remake of 1996’s “Space Jam,” which combined live-action and animation and paired basketball legend Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny and

From the Big Screen: The Forever Purge (2021) The old rules of the Purge are broken as members of an underground movement, no longer satisfied with the annual night of

From the Big Screen: F9: The Fast Saga (2021) The ninth chapter in the Fast & Furious Saga, which has endured for two decades and has earned more than $5

From the Big Screen: Black Widow (2021) Natasha Romanoff – aka Black Widow – confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past

This Week’s Best Bets: “The Soul of the Midnight Special” (2021) is a 10-disc set with 130 live uncut performances from Burt Sugarman’s 90-minute program “The Midnight Special,” which began

From the Big Screen: Spirit Untamed (2021) An animated story of adventure, family and friendship. Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father, but she’s decidedly unimpressed

From the Big Screen: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and

From the Big Screen: Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) – are back on

From the Big Screen: The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 After surviving a night of terror on the West Coast, (not-so) best-selling author Carl Black (Mike Epps) moves

From the Big Screen: Luca Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about a young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer.

From the Big Screen: A Quiet Place: Part II (2021) Following the deadly events at home in “A Quiet Place,” the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must

From the Big Screen: Spiral (From the Book of Saw) Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris

From the Big Screen: Mortal Kombat (2021) MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage — or why Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung

This Week’s Best Bets: Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made — “Bringing Up Baby” (1938),

  Have a Safe and Sane Fourth of July   This Week’s Best Bets: “Poison” (1991) is the second feature directed by Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of “Far from

From the Big Screen: Nobody (2021) Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he takes life’s indignities on the chin and never rocks

From the Big Screen: Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) Legends collide in Godzilla vs. Kong as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of

From the Big Screen: “City of Lies” What is worse, the crime or the cover-up? Based on the book, “LAbyrinth,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Randall Sullivan, this crime-thriller follows the

  Happy Memorial Day   From the Big Screen: The Courier (2020) This true-life spy thriller is the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) who is

From the Big Screen: Chaos Walking In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where

From the Big Screen: The Father Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), encouragingly introduces. Yet help is

From the Big Screen: The Marksman Hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he fends off eviction notices and tries to make a

From the Big Screen: Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Fred Hampton was 21 years old when he was assassinated by the FBI, who coerced a petty criminal named William