(***) The biggest, brightest jazz, smooth jazz and R&B stars come to Columbia Maryland every year to shine a light on the Capital Jazz Festival. That orbit has been a perennial alignment since 1993, when the fest was inaugurated. It happened again in 2024 when 20,000+ fans roamed through Symphony Woods Park, sitting in the […]
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
(**1/2) They’re older. Wiser? Well older. Boyz II middle-aged men. They still got it? And if they do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003), starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as rambunctious Miami cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery, were directed by the flashy director Michael Bay. Bad Boys […]
The Idea of You
(***) “I can’t get that kiss out of my mind.” How would you feel if you received that text? It wasn’t supposed to happen. A brief encounter turned into something more than it should. An older woman. A much younger man. Where could this lead? That’s the premise of Robinne Lee’s romance novel The Idea of […]
Atlas
(**) Hard to respect an action/adventure/sci-fi film when all its flaws are so obvious. The un-special effects in this feeble, futuristic and shallowly written movie (Leo Sardarian, Aron Eli Coleite) are so telltale they would be laughable in a theater. But on a streaming service (Netflix), where mediocre movies are a bit more tolerable, there’s […]
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(***1/2) Wow. It’s a rebirth. There’s a new badass rising like a phoenix. In 1979, Australian director George Miller introduced the post-apocalyptic and eerily dystopian action film Mad Max to audiences around the world. Forty-five years later he’s resurrecting the saga and has created a new storyline that’s as worthy as all the others in: Mad Max 2: […]
Andra Day Graces Opening Night of the 2024 Blue Note Jazz Festival
(***) She’s a Grammy winner. A Golden Globe winner. An Oscar Nominee. So Andra Day is the perfect superstar artist to kick off the 2024 Blue Note Jazz Festival New York City. Crowds lined up early Monday night May 2nd in the heart of Greenwich Village to grab the best seat at the Blue Note New York jazz club. Fans […]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(**) It’s hard to fathom who’ll go ape over this action/sci-fi/drama. Maybe those who don’t know better and slept through the previous Planet of the Apes trilogy. The bar was set very high back in 2011, after Rise of the Planet of the Apes became the grandchild of the original 1968 cult classic film. In that $481M blockbuster hit, James […]
The Fall Guy
(**) Telling someone “You have nothing between your ears,” isn’t a compliment. Telling a filmmaker and screenwriter “You have nothing between the action scenes,” is a similar diss. Read on… The trailers for The Fall Guy look exciting and certainly the premise has great potential. Stuntman Cole Seavers (Ryan Gosling, Barbie) is on hiatus after a precarious fall […]
Challengers
(***) Sometimes, three’s a crowd. Sometimes, not. Especially when a very desirable female tennis star enjoys making two male tennis players compete for her affection. “Whoever wins, gets my number.” They’ve known each other since the early 2000s. As a teenager, Tashi Duncan (Zendaya, Dune), was once the queen of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTS) juniors. She […]
The Long Game
(**1/2) Watching people beg and fight for equal access and dignity is sobering. But that’s what happened in the ‘50s before the anger and upheaval of the ‘60s civil rights movements. Gaining equality wasn’t easy back then. Life in small town Del Rio, Texas in 1955 is a microcosm of what’s going on in the […]
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