Review – Spidey’s back! (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”)

This is part one, BTW. Its sequel, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, comes out in 2024. . . or so I’m told. Anyway, this is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s blockbuster, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which introduced young Miles Morales as the new web-slinger. Using a terrific mash-up of traditional 2D and CG animation, drawing on…

Review – Luke Skywalker Goes To Russia (“The Machine”)

If you’ve seen bare-chested Bert Kreischer’s stand-up comedy routine called “The Machine” on YouTube, you know about his so-called IRL crazy & harrowing booze-soaked college trip to Russia and falling in with a bunch of Russian mobsters. Well, here’s a fictionalized sequel to that story. Whether it really happened or not, director Peter Atencio (the…

Review – Daddy Dearest (“About My Father”)

If you’ve seen the stand-up comedy of Sebastian Maniscalco on Netflix, you already know about his hilarious life, and his crazy Italian father and family. Maniscalco has co-written his first screenplay along with Austen Earl (Disney’s The Santa Clauses series) about his dad and his nutty antics. Robert DeNiro (who also starred in Meet The Parents) plays…

Review – Fast-10 Your Seatbelts (“Fast X”)

In part one of this proposed threequel to the wildly popular Fast ‘n’ Furious franchise, you got Capt. Marvel, Groot, Aquaman, Black Adam, Ratcatcher, Peacemaker, Wonder Woman, and Hespera. Wow! Talk about your superhero line-up!!   We begin with a brief callback to the wacky adventures of 2011’s Fast Five (see review below) with Dominic Toretto…