February 7, 2026 “Dance With The Devil” (* out of four) was an ungainly, ugly urban melodrama about three female hoods (Tiffany Trill Scott, Davida Reed, Martina Motley) who target an elderly man (Roosevelt Johnson) living in their neighborhood but don’t realize he’s the devil incarnate who is setting a trap for them. Similar in many aspects to “Don’t Breathe” except that movie was made with some conviction and intelligence. Mean-spirited and tacky, when it isn’t boring. Continue reading →
February 7, 2026 “Grizzly Night” (*1/2 out of four) was a grizzly bore about a ferocious grizzly bear on the loose and various townsfolk (Charles Esten, Oded Fehr, Brec Bassinger, and others) who have to steer clear of its path. They should have steered clear of the movie instead. Plodding and lumbering, like the bear itself, and even the attack scenes are pretty tame and turgid. Yet another movie seemingly inspired by the success of “Cocaine Bear” but the movie it actually rips off the most is “Silver Bullet.” Continue reading →
February 7, 2026 “I’m Chevy Chase And You’re Not” (** out of four) was a one-note documentary on the legendary prickly comedian showing his start on SNL to feature films and celebrity success and his spectacular fall in the 90’s with his disastrous talk show and then his spiral into depression and alcoholism and life-threatening health issues. Not all that revelatory, even though it features interviews with a lot of Chase’s famous friends and co-stars such as Dan Aykroyd, Goldie Hawn, and others. Chase himself often comes off as a self-righteous jerk but maybe that’s the point here. Only the final scenes which show them at a live interaction screening of “Christmas Vacation” have any emotional resonance. Continue reading →
February 7, 2026 “Road Kill” (* out of four) was a hazardous action psychodrama about a man (Nicholas Carr) trying to help plan his sister’s (Laia Amor) wedding and goes out on the road and winds up in a detour in which he realizes he is being stalked to the death and he has to try to get back on the road and back to safety. A catastrophe of continuity and storytelling coherence and slapdashedly put together. Even at a little more than an hour, all this mess does is “kill” your time. Continue reading →
February 7, 2026 “Murder, Lies, And Marriage” (** out of four) was a stale, synthetic suspense melodrama about a woman (Kelly Sullivan) wrongfully imprisoned for murder who is released and tries to reconnect with her daughter (Mia Romay) but then begins to suspect that her daughter’s father (Alex Trumble) and his new lover (Nadia Adelay) may have been the ones who framed and had her railroaded in the past. Just another prefabricated pretext for another connect-the-dots psychodrama. Glamorously shot by Patrice Lucien Crochet with exquisite lighting which provides film’s main highlight. Watch “Sex, Lies, And Videotape” again instead. Continue reading →
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