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My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, April 25th, 2025. 1) THE SHROUDS When one of your all-time favorite filmmakers drops a new movie, the anticipation comes with a strange mix of excitement and anxiety. David Cronenberg  is one of those guys for me — a daring, fearless, audacious director whose career has spanned everything from low-budget gross-o

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Film Critic pants, ON! It's time for some capsule (short) movie reviews, so here are my thoughts on five New Releases for the week of Friday, October 4, 2024. I must warn you; it is a pretty bad week...two of the very worst major releases of the year came out on the same day. 1) JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX Todd Phillips  is a terrible filmmaker who makes terrible films, his gifts to the world include absolute worthless trash like, "Road Trip,"   "Starsky and Hutch,"   "Due Date,"  "W

I am currently sporting my Film Critic pants which means it's time for some capsule (short) movie reviews of four New Releases for the week of Friday, September 6th, 2024 1) BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Taken a few minutes before the press screening of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" began. It's kind of hard to believe that it's been 36 years since Tim Burton 's macabre comedy "Beetlejuice" was released, and even harder to believe it took this long for a sequel.   When the first film c