Friday, April 22, 2022

Your Weekend Movie Guide for April 2022

 

No sight pleased me more during my NY trip earlier this month than to see that my favorite neighborhood cinema...the Bronxville...has re-opened for the first time since March 2020.   There's a new owner but, inside, the theater looks nostalgically the same.   My euphoria was such that I felt compelled to go see "The Lost City" there the very next day.

Sadly, my beloved LA haunt..the Arclight Hollywood...is still down for the count.  But, business has gone back to usual for the most part with movie theaters.  Even if the on-screen product remains a bit lackluster.   You know the monthly drill, gang.   I will peruse the movie pages of the newspaper and give you my knee-jerk gut reaction to what's playing.

But, as seen before, I'm just glad anything is playing at the Bronxville.

The Lost City:   As I stated above, seen it and reviewed it here.   Escapist fun that owes its very existence to "Romancing the Stone."

The Batman:   Three hours long and that's a deterrent these days.

Viva Maestro:   A documentary about conductor Gustavo Dudamel who I personally think is full of himself.

Coda:   Reviewed here and yes, it deserved to be Best Picture.

Father Stu:  Mark Wahlberg as a convict/priest.   As if that's a new concept these days.

Everything Everywhere All At Once:   That pretty covers it all.

Fantastic Beats - The Secrets of Dumbledore:  Just when you thought you were done with all that Harry Potter nonsense.

Morbius:  Sounds too much like morbid and that's not good.

Ambulance:   I guess it's not about a Good Humor truck.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2:   Clearly for those who saw Sonic the Hedgehog 1.

X:  A horror movie about young people making porn in 1979.  Which would have been rated...X.

Uncharted:   If you can't get enough of Mark Wahlberg, he's in this, too.

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent:  A movie caper where Nicolas Cage stars and actually plays himself.   Huh?

All The Old Knives:   All about CIA double agents.   As if there is such a thing...wink, wink.

The Northman:   About some Vikings and that always bores me.

The Bad Guys:  Some cartoon with criminals trying to turn into good citizens.   Not available in NY, LA, or Chicago.

Memory:  Liam Neeson stars in the movie he made last week.

Dinner last night:   Salad.



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