As we trudge past the miserable heat of July, many movie fans might think that the Summer season of blockbusters is over with the arrival of August. And they would be wrong. Just as it appeared that ...

Ho, ho, ho, Hollywood is coming home for the holidays. Oh, but what a home. The domicile featured in this new movie is exquisite, lush, the stuff of “house and garden” fever dreams. But the looks are ...

Did you think that the only movie remakes out this year were THE ROSES and THE TOXIC AVENGER (not counting the three live-action remakes of animated features)? Of course not, since the trailer for THE ...

Regular readers will recognize the name Sofia Helin from previous Scandinavian crime series reviews, including the highly praised original incarnation of “The Bridge.” The ultra busy actress stars in ...

Lina Kuustonen as small town cop Nina in the Finnish TV series “Arctic Circle” (“Ivalo”), streaming on Topic. Courtesy of Topic The first season of the Finnish crime procedural “Arctic Circle” ...

THE PLAGUE is one of those horror films that taps into familiar childhood, in this case, early adolescence and the bullying that frequently comes with that, and uses this familiarity to create the ...

Sofia Helin as Saga, in “The Bridge” Season 4. Director: Rumle Hammerich. Photo: Jens Juncker. Produced by Filmlance International AB. Courtesy of MHzChoice “The Bridge: Season 4” is likely the final ...

This big new studio film release takes a tough look at the social economics system in place today. So, it’s a hard-hitting drama or maybe a “searing” slice-of-life documentary? No, it’s a comedy.

In the crime drama MISDIRECTION, a couple of burglars/lovers (Olga Kurylenko, Oliver Trevana) use high-tech equipment and a meticulous plan to rob a rich guy’s (Frank Grillo) large modern home while ...

The French trio of procedural dramas, “Sophie Cross” (a/k/a “Crossroads”) starts with a tragedy. The 6-year-old son of a lovely couple, Sophie (Alexia Barlier) and Thomas (Thomas Jouannet) vanishes ...

April brings those showers, which may bring May flowers, and bring big box office returns for the movie studios. That’s because one of Pixar’s biggest rivals, Illumination Animation, is joining them ...

We’ve seen plenty of movies and TV series featuring heroic cops who nail the worst of the perps by “going rogue” to one extent or another. This French series THE TRAVELLER serves up a protagonist in ...