The year’s best feel-good film
Five stars. Unrated, and suitable for all agesGiven how it was sabotaged by malevolent forces this past summer — over which its roughly 496,000 hard-working employees had no control —...
Derrick Bang on Film: Jingle Jangle — A Christmas Journey: Sparkling all the way
This is an impressive slice of holiday razzle-dazzle. The tag line for writer/director David E. Talbert’s opulent fantasy promises that viewers will “discover a world of wishes and wonder,” and that’s...
Derrick Bang on Film: Wild Mountain Thyme: A charming romantic fable
Lovers of British whimsy likely will embrace this leisurely romantic comedy — available via video-on-demand — which takes an Irish approach to the conventional formula. Rosemary (Emily Blunt) has loved Anthony...