Many hit the right tenor in The High Note

The life of a music legend is smooth and easy, right? And her personal assistant runs herself ragged making sure that is so. Well, no and yes. And yes and no. So it goes in The High Note, a very pleasant 113 minutes of pop drama directed by Nisha Galatea from a screenplay by Flora…

The Peanut Butter Falcon hits the sweet spot

Zak doesn’t lack for endless spirit or proper anger, living as a twentysomething in a center for seniors somewhere in the south. He’s a fellow with no family, a man with Down syndrome, a resident who’s won over his roommate in his quest to escape that lonely existence into the big, wild world. They’ve watched…

A comedy about being single that feels right

Hollywood loves to mess with the heads of folks still playing the find-the-right-one game in life. Such as releasing the latest in a long line of romantic comedies, How to Be Single, on Valentine’s Day weekend. And they dig playing on the shoved-in-the-closet bad memories in us all, too. Everybody squirmed some while swimming in…

In Black Mass, Johnny Depp has evil down cold

Quite the block in South Boston that was that gave the world the Bulger brothers and John Connolly. Black Mass tells the tale with a deep and horrible chill. Directed by Scott Cooper by a script from Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth, this crime drama documentary is 122 minutes full of high ambition and low…