Abominable (2019) • View trailer Four stars. Rated PG, for no particular reasonBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.27.19 Well, this is quite the charmer. Writer/director Jill Culton — aided by co-director Todd Wilderman —...
Judy (2019) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated PG-13, for dramatic intensity, substance abuse, and profanityBy Derrick Bang This film has moments — quite a few, actually — that are sublime, and not merely...
Downton Abbey (2019) • View trailer Four stars. Rated PG, for no particular reasonBy Derrick Bang Goodness. What more could one desire? Despite having settled everybody quite pleasingly, when Downton Abbey concluded its television run on...
Ad Astra (2019) • View trailer No stars (turkey). Rated PG-13, for violence, brief dramatic intensity and fleeting profanityBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.20.19Put the ballots away; the contest for 2019’s worst...
Official Secrets (2019) • View trailer 4.5 stars. Rated R, for profanityBy Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.13.19 This fact-based drama could not be better timed. More than ever, we must be reminded...
Hustlers (2019) • View trailer Two stars. Rated R, for nudity, pervasive sexual content, profanity and drug useBy Derrick Bang Sometimes the elements simply don’t gel. The whole winds up less than the sum...
It Chapter Two (2019) • View trailer 3.5 stars. Rated R, for dramatic intensity, profanity, highly disturbing violent content and gore By Derrick Bang • Originally published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.6.19 This impressively creepy chiller delivers...
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) • View trailer Four stars. Rated R, for profanity, sexual candor and brief drug contentBy Derrick Bang We’ve often heard that artists suffer for their work. Jillian Bell suffered...
