Backrooms: The Yellow Wallpaper
This opening paragraph is for the oldsters. Specifically, for people my age who have other (and I can only hope, better) things to do...
Tuner: Let Me Hear It
There’s no Van Cliburn Competition taking place this summer, but if you yearn to listen to piano music anyway, you could do worse than...
From Supe to Nuts
One of the most confusing decisions Amazon Prime made in its early days was when it canceled the live-action remake of Ben Edlund’s brilliant...
Burning Down the Hutts
I did not have time to catch up on all three seasons of The Mandalorian before I saw Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. Nevertheless,...
Summer Movie Preview
The success of The Devil Wears Prada 2 kicks off a busy season for some of its stars. Anne Hathaway already starred in Mother Mary during...
Obsession: He Is Everything You Want
A low-budget exercise that expertly finds terror of the soul in thwarted love, Obsession arrives this weekend as the indie film you don’t want...
Is God Is: Daughter Vengeance
If not for the smartphones that the characters occasionally use, you might mistake Is God Is for some lost blaxploitation movie from the 1970s....
Devil Wears Prada 2: Retro Fitting
The happiest surprise I found in summer 2006 was The Devil Wears Prada, and I don’t just mean at the movie theater. I went...
Red Fabric
David Lowery has never lacked ambition, and so the North Texas product aims for a great many things with Mother Mary. His latest film...
Michael, Go. This Film’s a Bore
Whatever you think of him personally, Michael Jackson was undeniably one of show business’ greatest ever performers, possibly the greatest in my lifetime. It...



















