In a movie week determined to do the trite thing comes another homicidal clown slasher copycat that makes no apologies to the “It” franchise as it plunders the genre for plot. The killer isn’t named Pennywise—that would be too crass—instead adopting the moniker “Frendo,” the name Javier Bardem called his victims in the Oscar-winning “No Country for Old Men.” My personal crystal ball sees no Oscars coming for this unapologetic retread. Based on a YA novel I’ve vowed never to…
Josh Hartnett continues on the comeback trail he blazed last year in ”Trap,” as a devoted dad turned serial killer. This time the former teen idol, 46, is bleached-blond grunge personified as a washed up and out Secret Service agent seeking redemption before booze finishes him. OK, the plot is defines mundane at its moldiest. The impossible mission, which our boy decides to accept or there’d be no movie, is to track down a psycho terrorist, aka The Ghost,” on…
Fact-based family dramas don’t come more intense or indelible than Walter Salles’s emotional powerhouse starring Golden Globe best actress winner Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian wife and mother who fights a military dictatorship to save her flesh and blood. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/review-im-emotional-powerhouse-film-fernanda-torres-lead/story?id=117764030
Mikey Madison, Oscar’s new Cinderella, leads a cast of crazies as a Brooklyn sex worker who finds her prince charming in the son of a dangerous Russian oligarch. No list of the year’s best films would be complete without Sean Baker’s whirlwind blast of fun and social provocation. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/review-anora-thrillingly-alive-wicked-mischief-strafing-wit/story?id=114902937
