She doesn’t ride into town; she walks, dragging her baggage along with her. She has a name she’ll change and a past she can’t. So opens Maggie Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Jo, a 1993 western that feels less like a … Continue reading THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO
Set in London 2009 — for somewhat arbitrary reasons — The Good Liar opens with two lonely souls seeking companionship via a dating website: Distinctive Dating. Both are elderly, and both check various boxes and add personal information while the opening titles … Continue reading THE GOOD LIAR
If a description is necessary of Disney’s 2017 live-action re-telling of Beauty and the Beast, let it be this: Moviemaking by committee. Not one frame of this two-hour and nine-minute hollow money grab smacks of personality or identity. Nor does it … Continue reading BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Michael J. Cinema 