Neil's Entertainment Picks

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 Neil's Entertainment Picks Apr 22, 2026 5/5 Inventively blends and bridges the physical and the spiritual, the real and the remembered, the mundane and the mystical. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Apr 21, 2026 2/5 This disinfected, feel-good tribute wants us to remember Jackson as the King of Pop, fulfilling his wish to become the biggest star in the world, but not how he lost much of his reputation in the process, alone and adrift in his own Never Never Land. Go to Full Review Michael (2025) 38% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Apr 21, 2026 4/5 If Dustin Hoffman can get an Academy Award nomination for playing an autistic savant in 'Rain Main,' Robert Aramayo certainly deserves a nod for 'I Swear.' Go to Full Review I Swear (2025) 96% - -

Neil Pond Neil's Entertainment Picks Apr 9, 2026 3/5 It won’t win any awards, but it will likely find its target audience with movie lovers who love unpretentious, feel-good yarns, dreamy romances with photogenic stars, one-liner laughs, picture-postcard scenery and some zingy dashes of PG-13 spice. Go to Full Review You, Me & Tuscany (2026) 65% - -