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Movie Review: WARFARE

WARFARE movie poster | ©2025 A24

Rating: R Stars: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Aaron Mackenzie, Alex Brockdorff, Finn Bennett, Evan Holtzman, Michael Gandolfini, Joe Macaulay, Laurie Duncan, Jake Lampert, Aaron Deakins, Henrique Zaga, Kit Connor, Noah Centineo, Taylor John Smith, Adain Bradley, Charles Melton, Tom Dunne, Rayhan Ali, Heider Ali, Sima Pollitt, Nathan Altai, Aso Sherabayani, Amira Dutton, Donya Hussen, Inbal Amram Writers: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland Distributor: A24 Release Date: April 11, 2025 The phrase describing war as “long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror” is said to date back to […]Read On »


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LAW & ORDER: Actor Mehcad Brooks on the twenty-fourth season – Exclusive Interview

Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw in LAW & ORDER - Season 24 - "A Price to Pay" | ©2025 NBC/Virginia Sherwood

Mehcad Brooks has played all sorts of characters in his acting career, from a bespelled small-town Louisiana man in TRUE BLOOD to mysterious cul-de-sac dweller Matthew Applewhite on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to a pro football player in the TV series version of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS to legendary D.C. Comics newspaperman in six seasons of SUPERGIRL to one of Earth’s greatest heroes in the 2021 feature MORTAL KOMBAT. For the past three seasons, Brooks, originally from Texas, has played NYPD homicide detective Jalen Shaw on NBC’s long-running procedural LAW & ORDER. The series is now in its twenty-fourth season Thursday nights and streaming […]Read On »


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GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY: Actor Matthew Davis on the NBC dramedy – Exclusive Interview

Matthew Davis as Joel in GROSSE POINT GARDEN SOCIETY | ©2025 NBC / Sally Montana

Created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs, the new dramedy GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY jumps back and forth in time to reveal how four volunteers of the title organization – wealthy Birdie (Melissa Fumero), real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King), landscaper Brett (Ben Rappaport), and high school teacher Alice (AnnaSophia Robb) – wind up having to bury a body together in the dead of night. The series moves from Sundays to Fridays on NBC beginning April 4, with episodes thereafter available on Peacock. Matthew Davis plays Grosse Pointe sheriff Joel, who knew Birdie back in high school. Joel married […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A MINECRAFT MOVIE

A MINECRAFT MOVIE | ©2025 Warner Bros. / Legendary

Rating: PG Stars: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Kate McKinnon (voice) Writers: Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer and Neil Widener & Gavin James and Chris Galletta, story by Allison Schroeder and Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer, based on the video game created by Markus “Notch” Persson Director: Jared Hess Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: April 4, 2025 Per Wikipedia, MINECRAFT is the most popular video game in the world. Even if Wikipedia is wrong (it happens) about it being Number One, MINECRAFT is certainly right up there. It was therefore inevitable that a movie be […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HELL OF A SUMMER

HELL OF A SUMMER movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Billy Bryk, Finn Wolfhard, Paradis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, Adam Pally, Matthew Finlan, Julia Doyle, Krista Nazaire, Julia Lalonde, Daniel Gravelle, Susan Coyne Writers: Billy Bryk & Finn Wolfhard Directors: Billy Bryk & Finn Wolfhard Distributor: Neon Release Date: April 4, 2025 Comparing HELL OF A SUMMER to SCREAM is a bit of a stretch. The characters in the new film aren’t fonts of horror movie lore. On the other hand, they are self-aware enough to mostly behave in a self-protective manner when danger threatens, and we eventually get some villain monologues. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ERIC LARUE

ERIC LARUE movie poster | ©2025 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Judy Greer, Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Sparks, Alison Pill, Tracy Letts, Annie Parisse, Kate Arrington, Marylouise Burke, Nation Sage Henrikson Writer: Brett Neveu, based on his stage play Director: Michael Shannon Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: April 4, 2025 When a school shooting occurs, as it does all too often, the most obvious victims are the dead and wounded. However, other victims include the families of those shot, often the family of the shooter, and pretty much the whole community. ERIC LARUE, scripted by Brett Neveu based on his stage play, encompasses all of this. In his […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FREAKY TALES

FREAKY TALES movie poster | ©2025 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Michelle Farrah Huang, Jordan Gomes, Demario “Symba” Driver, Too $hort, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd, Natalia Dominquez Writers: Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden Directors: Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 4, 2025 FREAKY TALES has images marked by video tape striations, part of its effort to set the mood and the place. We’re in 1987 Oakland, where things are about to indeed get freaky. Directed and written by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, FREAKY TALES is broken into […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA

THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA movie poster | ©2025 IFC Films

Rating: R Stars: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shamier Anderson, David Strathairn, Brian Geraghty, Patti Harrison, Maisie Williams, Ricky Russert, David Rysdahl, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Damian Young, Haley Bennett, Johnny Knoxville, James Wolk, Lilli Kay Writers: Samir Oliveros & Maggie Briggs, story by Samir Oliveros & Maggie Briggs & Amanda Freedman Director: Samir Oliveros Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: April 4, 2025 An opening card informs us that the film is fact-based but fictionalized. Fair enough. An Internet search promptly reveals what happened with Michael Larson and the game show PRESS YOUR LUCK in 1984, so viewers can see what […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A NICE INDIAN BOY

A NICE INDIAN BOY movie poster | ©2025 Blue Harbor Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Karan Soni, Jonathan Groff, Sunita Mani, Zarna Garg, Harish Patel, Peter S. Kim, Sas Goldberg, Sachin Sahel Writer: Eric Randall, based on the play by Madhuri Shekar Director: Roshan Sethi Distributor: Blue Harbor Entertainment Release Date: April 4, 2025 Based on the play by Madhuri Shekar and directed by Roshan Sethi from a screenplay by Eric Randall, A NICE INDIAN BOY is an amiable if sometimes highly sentimental gay romcom. Naveen Gavaskar (Karan Soni) provides some opening narration, explaining that he was twenty-five years old when his slightly older sister Arundhathi (Sunita Mani) had her big […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE WOMAN IN THE YARD

THE WOMAN IN THE YARD movie poster | ©2025 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson, Estella Kahila, Russell Hornsby Writer: Sam Stefanak Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: March 28, 2025 Rowena Harris (Danielle Deadwyler) has been having trouble getting out of bed since the death of her husband David (Russell Hornsby) in a car accident several weeks earlier. Rowena came away with a broken leg and injuries requiring stitches, but the emotional wounds run much deeper. She’s having trouble being wholly there for her children, teen Taylor (Peyton Jackson) and little Annie (Estella Kahila), with unpaid bills and too little food in the […]Read On »


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