Summer Movie Preview
Let’s skip past the introductory paragraph and dive right in. The horror movie series from the 1980s are in no small part responsible for...
Old Woman With the Knife: Roach Killer
The Korean thriller The Old Woman With the Knife opens at AMC Grapevine Mills this weekend. That evocative title will sound familiar to those...
Adolescence: ‘What Have You Done?’
Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a...
Another Simple Favor: Blood-Spattered Bride
Why isn’t Another Simple Favor in theaters? The sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor is good enough to be there, considerably better than a...
Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”
The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...
Yadang: The Snitch Is On
My latest Korean movie is Yadang: The Snitch, a huge box-office success that has won rave reviews from both critics and filmmakers. Maybe this...
Legend of Ochi: A24 for Kids
Somewhat unfairly, A24 Films has gained a reputation for making soul-scarring horror movies, so it’s a point of intrigue when that same studio announces...
Wallis Island: Re-Harmony
The same week that Sinners opens, another movie about the power of music opens, but just at the AMC theaters at Grapevine Mills and...
Sinners: Let the White One In
Sinners begins with a prologue showing us how different cultures regarded their powerful storytellers, including the African griots. Writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t make the comparison,...
Hour of The Amateur
About half an hour into The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is lurking inside a Parisian apartment building where a terrorist (Barbara Probst) lives....
