‘Batkid Begins’: Summer bright spot

HollywoodandFine.com The wish of a terminally ill child as the subject for a documentary? I know, cue the cliches: strength in the face of tragedy, laughter through tears, the whole “Steel Magnolias” shtick. Except that Dana Nachman’s touching, funny nonfiction film, “Batkid Begins,” is sheer delight. Instead of something maudlin …

‘Dope’: Geeks rule

HollywoodandFine.com I’ve heard Rick Famuyiwa’s “Dope” referred to as “Nerdz ’N the Hood,” which is apt – although a better comparison would be “Risky Business.” Set in the Inglewood section of Los Angeles, the film’s central character is Malcolm (Shameik Moore), bespectacled and unathletic, a nerd who is both intelligent …

‘San Andreas’: Rumble. Tumble. Yawn.

HollywoodandFine.com “San Andreas”? I thought we critics drove a stake through this film’s heart when it came out 40 years ago under the title “Earthquake.” But each generation of special effects creates its own avalanche of disaster films: movies about disasters that are themselves disastrous. The latest iteration of cutting-edge …

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