Magic in the Moonlight is Woody Allen’s latest European summer fling, this time set on the French Mediterranean coast in the late 1920s. An insufferable egotist of a stage magician (Colin Firth in stuffed-shirt mode) is called in to debunk a supposedly bogus spiritualist (a sprightly and insubstantial Emma Stone)…

The November Man marks Pierce Brosnan’s return to the spy/assassin genre (last outing: 2005’s The Matador). In this one, he’s a retired CIA operative drawn back into the game to rescue a lost love who has incriminating information about “the next president of Russia.” Deadly complications ensue. Yes, he’s playing…

(It strikes me that this is my blog and I can do whatever I want with it. I’ve been writing these pint-sized movie reviews in Goodreads for some time; there’s no good reason for me to not put them here, too. So there.) The Admiral: Roaring Currents is a kind…