Air Force One Down (2024)
Katerine McNamara in “Air Force One Down.” Idiotic ‘Down’ is just ‘plane’ awful In unleashing one of the dumbest movies in a while, director James Bamford’s “Air Force One Down” counters the current presidential field by introducing a young, virile POTUS (Ian Bohen) able almost single-handedly to quash an Astovian uprising. I say “almost” because […]
Float (2024)
Soggy ‘Float’ doesn’t offer much Bang for buck If you’re searching for the perfect Valentine’s Day movie, “Float” ain’t it. It’s actually not much of anything, beyond a pleasing showcase for Andrea Bang (“Luce”) as Waverly, an overtaxed med student seeking asylum from an impending residency and her cloying parents. She finds said refuge with […]
Robert Eggers (2015)
Eggers conjures a cult hit with ‘The Witch’ Great things have been happening to Robert Eggers since the New Hampshire native won the top directing prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival for his Puritan horror tale, “The Witch.” But it might not have ever happened if it weren’t for the folks at Plimoth Plantation, […]
Octavia Spencer/Tate Taylor
A little ‘Help’ from their friendships When they met 16 years ago as production assistants on Joel Schumacher’s “A Time to Kill,” Tate Taylor and Octavia Spencer had no idea they were sowing the seeds for a symbiotic friendship that would one day put both in the thick of the Oscar race. Still, it took a fortuitous contribution from a third member of […]