Comedian Kevin Hart headlines the trashy fish-out-of-water comedy "72 Hours" (Netflix). Though intended to be warm and good-hearted at its core, the film is too encrusted in innumerable coarse elements to make this nucleus of niceness worth discovering.
The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television during the week of Aug. 16, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Joan Leslie was a darling and talented star who radiated refreshing innocence. But she was no ingénue. Rather she embodied a simple yet multilayered high moral character. As Velma Goodhue in High Sierra (1941), she played a young working-class girl with disability; hardened criminal Roy Earle, played by Humphrey Bogart, befriends her. Earle pays for an operation to Read More… Joan Leslie: Classic Hollywood star who was true to herself
Peter Parker and his titular alter ego (Tom Holland) face challenges both emotional and physical in "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (Sony), an engaging extension of the long-lived franchise. While the film's underlying values are sound, however, an excess of vulgar dialogue makes it questionable fare even for older teens.
