Baby Baby
Four years ago, Joe and Kris Swanberg had a baby. In response, they did what Swanbergs do: They made films about it. Joe’s arrived...
Pain and Glory: Salva
Movies are usually worse or better than their hype. It’s a truly rare occasion when a movie turns out exactly as good as its...
Winding Drive
Oh, damn, Ryan Gosling is cool. He’s so cool that it hurts you deep inside. He has become famous as a romantic lead, and...
Takedown
After billionaire wrestling benefactor John du Pont was arrested in 1989 for murdering coach and former Olympic gold medalist Dave Schultz, the police announced...
Air France
Before the United States entered World War I in 1917, there were already a small number of American men who had gone to France...
Nobody Kicks Ass
So, anybody can be an action star these days. Time was that you needed superhuman skills like Bruce Lee to avoid looking ridiculous in...
Summer Movie Guide
As far as movies are concerned, summer started last month with Avengers: Endgame, which is probably going to be the biggest box-office hit of...
Marvels: Tag Team
Let me draw your attention to one thing about The Marvels. It’s the running time, a crisp 100 minutes even including the mid-credit sequence...
Nodding Off
Often you hear about how comedy stars who act in movies need to be kept in line by directors. Well, Michel Gondry is a...
Blood and Snow
Since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published 110 years ago, doing something new with vampires in any storytelling medium has gotten to be extremely difficult.
The...
