Eddie Murphy's comic dexterity isn't enough to save the bloated Amazon Prime Christmas fantasy, "Candy Cane Lane." Murphy makes a deal with a backslidden elf to help him win a neighborhood decoration prize. There is too much of everything in this wacky and painfully overlong mess. “Candy Cane Lane” is...
Oscar winners Jamie Foxx ("Ray") and Tommy Lee Jones ("The Fugutive") star in the Amazon Prime drama, "The Burial," based on a compelling true story.
A flamboyant lawyer attempts to dig up some justice in "The Burial," an Amazon Prime drama inspired by a true story. Jamie Foxx gives a magnetic performance as Willie E. Gary, a personal injury lawyer who took on a big corporation in a contract law case, representing an exploited funeral...
"The Exorcist: Believer" had to change its release date so that it wouldn't compete with the Taylor Swift concert film. Now that's scary. In this creepy franchise reboot, Leslie Odom, Jr. plays the father of one of two demon-possessed girls. He recruits help from someone with experience, the mother from...
Kenneth Branagh returns for this third go-round as Agatha Christie's famed detective Hercule Poirot in the spooky whodunit, "A Haunting in Venice." During a seance at an eerie Venetian villa in 1947, a medium played by Michelle Yeoh is murdered. It's up to the cunning Belgian sleuth to determine if...
"The Last Voyage of the Demeter" is an adaptation of just one chapter from Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula." Corey Hawkins and Kansas City native son David Dastmalchian star in the tale of voyagers trapped at sea with the infamous vampire. An impressive cast and strong production values boost this claustrophobic...
The Hulu movie "Deep Water" desperately wants to be an erotic thriller like some of director Adrian Lyne's earlier films like "Fatal Attraction." Sadly, this poorly paced adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel is fatal, but there's little attraction. Ben Affleck portrays a wealthy snob who may or may not be...
If you're in the mood for an old-fashioned Turner Classic Movies-style whodunit, look no further than "Death on the Nile." Director/star Kenneth Branagh is back as Agatha Christie's erudite detective Hercule Poirot, whom we last saw in 2017’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Now, we see Poirot working on a...
