‘American Gigolo’ gets a modern makeover, but this call isn’t worth answering

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Once you get past the familiar strains of Blondie’s “Call Me” over the opening credits, the message from “American Gigolo” isn’t worth answering. It is, rather, a misguided and distasteful reboot, seeking to tease the movie’s premise into a larger mystery. Jon Bernthal struts his stuff as the escort trying to get his laugh back, but this ’80s artifact should have been left in the time capsule.Continue Reading

‘Cobra Kai’ hasn’t lost its kick as it keeps ‘Karate Kid’-ing around

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Crossing the streams with its sequels, the fifth season of “Cobra Kai” features heavy dollops of the second and third “The Karate Kid” movies while continue to carve out its own next-generation melodrama, all in extraordinarily nimble fashion. While it’s not the best series on TV (OK, Netflix), there should be some kind of prize for the best revival culled from limited source material.Continue Reading

European giants buck US decoupling from China

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Blaring headlines such as “US bans ‘advanced tech’ firms from building facilities in China for a decade” and “China’s zero-Covid policies are crippling its economic outlook” distract from more mundane but arguably more important corporate news coming out of China. Those new developments include the start of production at BASF’s new industrial complex in Zhanjiang […]

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