Neil Pond

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 22, 2026 2/5 It’s sappy and soppy, full of peculiarity but coming up empty on most everything else. And its attempts at humor and comedy seem forced and fall flat. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 20, 2026 4/5 Romantic and sensual, sexy and sometimes funny, often poetic and even achingly lovely. It’s a parable about love and marriage, lust, desire and jealousy, outcasts and insiders. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 15, 2026 4/5 A mesmerizing curiosity that blurs the lines between reality, fabrication and performance art. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 14, 2026 3/5 A whale of a deep-sea life-or-death tale with an even deeper message about fathers and sons. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 13, 2026 3/5 Rock creates a biting portrait of what it takes to be an actor, to succeed in a town where show business is a machine with monstrous gears that can chew, mash and churn people into so much stardust. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Oct 12, 2026 4.5/5 it’s impossible to miss the movie’s timely message cutting through the lavish luridness loud and clear: Religious hysteria and political power can be a dangerous—and devilish—combination, an unholy marriage of church and state. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Sep 29, 2026 4/5 The story you didn’t know about a movie almost everyone knows—and one that became a multi-film franchise, a pop-cultural touchstone, a multiple Oscar winner and the launching pad for Stallone’s blockbuster acting career. Go to Full Review I Play Rocky (2026) 85% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Sep 29, 2026 3/5 Avoids the jump scares, goop and gore of many horror flicks, instead focusing on moody, claustrophobic terror and wrenching up the weirdness. Go to Full Review Breeder (2026) 87% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Sep 29, 2026 3.5/5 A sprawling, emotionally rich salute to an artist who’s still faithful to the musical muse that first called out to him as a skinny, blue-eyed, baby-faced guitar prodigy growing up on the outskirts of London, Go to Full Review Frampton (2026) - - - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Sep 2, 2026 3/5 Fanning is the true crux of the story, giving a standout performance as a woman feeling the tick-tick-tick of her biological clock. Go to Full Review The Sun Never Sets (2026) 78% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Aug 26, 2026 3/5 If you’re looking for a smaller, scrappier indie flick as a palette cleanser for big-budget IMAX blockbusters, come along for the wild ride. It’s an "Odyssey" in its own grungy way, and on its own freaky terms. Go to Full Review Idiots (2026) 65% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Aug 19, 2026 2/5 The scares aren’t very scarifying, the terror isn’t really terrifying, the goblins not so horrifying. After six movies and 17 years, this ghoul fest feels like it's running out of gas. Go to Full Review Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) 58% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Aug 18, 2026 3/5 A sweet, savory and sometimes spicy snapshot of Bourdain learning about pots and pans and people, and about how dirty dishes directed him to a passion for all things culinary, and beyond. Go to Full Review Tony (2026) 93% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Aug 14, 2026 2.5/5 Mix beehives, honey heists, murder, bloody pulp, church potlucks and downhome pickin’ and grinnin’ and you get this overcooked Southern gumbo of a movie. Go to Full Review The Rivals of Amziah King (2025) 87% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Aug 5, 2026 3/5 A merry mashup of George Orwell, 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'When Harry Met Sally,' with more sex jokes—a lot more. Go to Full Review One Night Only (2026) 44% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Jul 28, 2026 3.5/5 Part superhero saga, part love story, part detective-yarn mystery, it’s all Spider-Man facing a "brand new day" of reckoning with who he is, what he is and what he’s destined to become. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Neil Pond Parade Magazine Jul 15, 2026 4/5 A bold, brawny and brutally impressive mega-movie. And probably the only film you’ll ever see with a famous rapper, Zendaya as a goddess, Spider-Man, a 50-foot-tall cyclops in a cave, a bunch of pigs that used to be guys and Matt Damon with a full beard. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Neil Pond Parade Magazine Jul 9, 2026 3/5 Wants to nudge us into some chuckles at its outlandish premise, its random randy-ness, its cavalcade of in-jokes and its weird, wonderfully wacky spin on someplace way, way over the rainbow. Go to Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 78% - -

Neil Pond Parade Magazine Jul 7, 2026 3.5/5 Puts an inventive, contemporary twist on "groundbreaking" couple comedies of years gone by, and turns its satirical slices and dices into life-mate therapy and waves of personal re-evaluation. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Neil Pond Parade Magazine Jul 1, 2026 4/5 A wildly creative, fantastically whimsical, gonzo alternative history of the silver screen, a rare movie made to appeal not just to kids but also to moms and dads who grew up watching movies. Go to Full Review Minions & Monsters (2026) 89% - -