Bride: Mismatched Parts
Good grief, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a trainwreck. It’s the sort of disaster that only male directors used to be allowed to make:...
Hoppers: Be the Beaver
With the release of Hoppers, this young year has already seen two animated films that are better sequels to Zootopia than Zootopia 2. The...
Pillion: Harry Melling and the Hot Biker Guy
Well, well. If you’d come up to me during the run of Harry Potter movies and asked me which of the kid actors outside...
How to Make a Killing: Bad Relations
I’m about to drop some film history on you, so brace yourself. In 1949, the British director Robert Hamer made a black-comedy masterpiece called...
Hot Wuther
Do we need another film of Wuthering Heights? The great William Wyler turned it into an imposing movie in 1939. In 2012, Andrea Arnold...
Moment: Sorry, Charli
I don’t know enough about the music of Charlotte Aitchison a.k.a. Charli xcx to call myself a fan, though I’ve tended to admire the...
Secret Agent: Moura Than Usual
The Secret Agent missed out on a Best Picture Oscar nomination last week, though it still has a chance to win the Best International...
Send Help: Girlboss
I didn’t know that I needed the feral, unhinged, blood-soaked version of Rachel McAdams in my life, but I did. That’s the one who...
Testament of Ann Lee: Shake It!
The Testament of Ann Lee is the greatest Christian musical film ever made, even if the competition isn’t exactly God’s plenty: Godspell, Sister Act,...
28 Years Later: Red Devil
It takes a mighty special filmmaker to reboot the Candyman series and then turn around and do a Black gay update of Henrik Ibsen....
