By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Let’s get this upfront: ”Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was the best comic-book film of the last decade. With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages […]
Fly across a fun ‘Spider-Verse’
“Hurt My Feelings” feels good
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer If I didn’t like Nicole Holofcener’s latest film, would I tell her? OK, sure, it wouldn’t be so odd for a critic to give an unvarnished opinion. […]
‘White Men’ remake grounded
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Nineties nostalgia has extended now to 1992’s “White Men Can’t Jump” returning to the blacktop courts where Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson hustled and Rosie Perez studied […]
Momoa won’t let ‘Fast-X’ crash
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer Fans and critics may disagree over when exactly the “Fast & Furious” franchise jumped the shark, but there is only one correct answer: When the Pontiac Fiero […]
J-Lo: action star in ‘The Mother’
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer The most interesting part of ” The Mother,” a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored. The movie […]
A likable Michael J. Fox in ‘Still’
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer I’ve always liked Michael J. Fox and always will. I suspect most people feel the same way. That’s surely partly because, as Marty McFly in “Back to […]
A rapturous dream at GWC
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune The bard beckons you to join his dream… Playing through Sunday, May 7 at the Mainstage Theater at Golden West College is one of the most enduring […]
Summer flix: ‘Barbieheimer’ etc.
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer The stakes are always high in the summer movie season. But even in a schedule that has heavyweights like Indiana Jones, Ariel, Ethan Hunt and Dominic Toretto […]
“Galaxy 3” messy but poignant
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” in the first “Guardians of the Galaxy,” it […]
“It’s Me, Margaret” is a classic
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer There is not a cynical molecule in the big-screen adaptation of ” Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” a sweet, playful and reverential adaptation of Judy […]
