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...
Odds and Ends
It’s a slow week for new films, so I’m going to put 2025 to bed by publishing this annual feature of mini-reviews of 13...
Normal: Minnesota Mayhem
There is a great deal that I cannot tell you about Normal. I can tell you it was directed by Ben Wheatley, the British...
Rollin’
Film began as an indoor artform, with cameras being too bulky and expensive to move outdoors. However, inventors still found ways to address nature...
Hamlet: Slumlord Millionaires
And now we have the fourth version of Hamlet in the last 16 months. I don’t think I would want to review a new...
