The Star Wars Movies ‘They’ Don’t Want You To Know About!

The Ewok Duology! Caravan of Courage! The Battle for Endor! The Star Wars movies THEY don’t want you to know about! Except they recently took them out of hibernation and put them up on Disney +, figuring by now Star Wars fans (or ‘SWans’, as they prefer to be called) will swallow just about anything …

The Breakfast Flub : Jerry Seinfeld – “Unfrosted”

Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix-released Unfrosted is as flat and artificially flavored as the Kellog’s Pop-Tarts it purports to praise. However, the movie does come in a colorful, eye-catching box, designed to suggest sugary cheerfulness… and a prize inside.  The prize inside, as hinted in recent headache-inducing interviews by Seinfeld, is that Unfrosted might be a return …

(It’s L. A.) : Nicholas Ray – “In a Lonely Place”

Out of Alfred Hitchcock’s canonized classics, I am most skeptical of Suspicion, a great movie betrayed by its ending. All the suspense Hitchcock masterfully conjures dissolves into one of the silliest, most abrupt, audience-appeasing “plot twist” finales ever. It amounts to “it was all a dream," negating the importance of all previous events. Much better …

Star Snores : Zack Snyder – “Rebel Moon” (Parts 1 and 2)

Sometime in the future, in a galaxy far too familiar, a new hope arises and the Imperium strikes back. Must be Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, a 4-and-a-half hours attempt to menace us with cloned IP. The plot (co-created by Snyder, Kurt Johnstan, and Shay Hatten) is barely worth reckoning with. Evil Dreadnoughts pilot colonial moons, …

Unsweet Emotions: Molly Manning Walker – “Good Thanks, You?”

How to Have Sex ( Molly Manning Walker’s full-length debut, and surely one of the year’s best) has its obvious germ on Walker’s previous short, Good Thanks, You? Same situation, condensed to the observational basics: After a night of partying goes miserably wrong, our heroine, Amy (an excellent Jasmine Jobson), shows up at the house …