Tag - Netflix

Freeze Frame: “Pinocchio” (PG), “End of the Road” (R)

America's dad wants to be a real dad. Tom Hanks stars as Geppetto in the Disney Plus live-action remake of the 1940 animated masterpiece, "Pinocchio." Cynthia Erivo plays the Blue Fairy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt provides the voice of Jiminy Cricket and Keegan-Michael Key is the duplicitous Honest John. Hanks re-teams here...

Freeze Frame: “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (R), “Me Time” (R), “Breaking” (PG-13), “Samaritan” (PG-13)

The Idris Elba film fest continues for the second week in a row with the ambitious fantasy, "Three Thousand Years of Longing." Elba plays a genie who emerges from a bottle to grant scholar Tilda Swinton three wishes. What follows is an off-beat philosophical meditation on human desire. This earnest...

Freeze Frame: “Beast” (R), “Look Both Ways” (TV-MA), “Prey” (R)

Who is the king of the jungle, man or beast? Idris Elba finds out the hard way in the unnerving new action thriller, "Beast." A widower doctor takes his estranged teenage girls to Africa to visit a wildlife preserve. They encounter an enraged lion out to kill all humans after his...

Freeze Frame: “Day Shift” (R), “Bodies Bodies Bodies” (R), “Emily the Criminal” (R)

If "Men in Black" had been about vampires instead of aliens, it may have looked a bit like the tongue-in-cheek horror movie, "Day Shift." Jamie Foxx plays a rogue vampire hunter in suburban LA. He tries to get back in the vampire hunters union, but has troubles with his new...

Freeze Frame: “Nope” (R), “The Gray Man” (PG-13), “Alone Together” (R)

Jordan Peele's ambitious and inventive sci-fi horror entry "Nope" is one part brilliant and three parts frustrating. It's as if M. Knight Shyamalan had decided to remake Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' with the goal of creeping us out. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play proprietors of a...