Review: “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”

The self-seriousness of the nostalgia-bait Ghostbusters sequel to open with Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice is almost laughable. And yet, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire— the fifth Ghostbusters movie and a direct sequel to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife— plays its ridiculous premise fairly straight. That fan service would abound in a movie that throws new characters alongside […]

Review: “The Dead Don’t Die”

3 out of 5 stars. From the get-go, police officer Ronnie Peterson (played by Adam Driver), tells his colleagues—and the audience—that this story is going to end badly. The journey to that ending, however, is a light-hearted romp through the zombie apocalypse, told with writer and director Jim Jarmusch’s signature brand of deadpan humor, with […]