At the Movies
Opening Aug. 9 is “The Kitchen”, a sort-of-feminist gangster movie that is based on a comic book series. Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, and TIFFANY HADDISH, 39, play the wives of mobsters. The wives take-over after their husbands are jailed. They are adept at running th…
Red Sea Diving Project/ Hollywood/Polanski News
“The Red Sea Diving Project,” an original Netflix film, begins streaming on July 31. This dramatic film recounts the true efforts of the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews in 1981. Many of them were…
Sleeper Summer Hit? A Multi-Layered Thriller
“The Art of Self-Defense” opens on July 12. It may open later in the month in a theater near you. It got rave reviews at film festivals. Here’s a long quote from the “Variety” review that encapsulates how unusually good it is: “Casey …
At the Movies: Here, Coming, and Brooks’ Funnies
The animated film “Toy Story 4” opens in theaters last week and will be playing for many weeks to come. Tom Hanks again voices Woody, the cowboy toy who is the star and hero of the whole series. Woody has many new adventures. They inclu…
At the Movie Theaters
“Late Night,” a comedy/drama, opens “wide” on June 14. It stars Emma Thompson as Katherine Newbury, the long-time host of a popular network entertainment talk show. Newbury’s whole writing team is male and she’s attacked in the press as a “woman hating wo…
