Suicide Siblings
Kristen Wiig became famous for her outrageously funny performances on Saturday Night Live, but she’s shown enough by now that we shouldn’t be surprised...
I Taped an Alien
If The Fourth Kind had come out next spring, we could have dismissed it as a Johnny-come-lately rip-off of Paranormal Activity. Coming out now,...
In Whose Name?: Yeezy as 1-2-3
We’re six years and counting into the Kanye West mental meltdown, and still the most perceptive thing anybody has said about it was on...
Superpowers Falter in the New X-Men
Well, crap. I had such high hopes for X-Men: First Class. The fifth entry in this loosely connected series features the return of Bryan...
J. Edgar: Hoover Ville
Mark Harris recently wrote that while film critics often slam a movie whose directors and/or actors are better than its weak script, those same...
Young Adult: Gary Unmarried
Everyone connected with Young Adult seems to have something to prove. Director Jason Reitman, typecast as a purveyor of crowd-pleasing entertainment that’s mature and...
Killing Them Softly: Cogan’s Bluff
Andrew Dominik is at home among thieves and killers. The New Zealander has made three films, and they’ve all been crime thrillers: the terrifying...
Him: Trick Plays
It was in the fall of 2016 that I saw Kicks at the AMC Parks at Arlington and was awed by its story of...
Ryan’s Hope
Ryan Bijan’s Erik: Portrait of a Living Corpse is a horror film made in Fort Worth, but it looks much different from other such...
Firth of Force
Talented though he is, Colin Firth has never shown that much range. While his close contemporary Hugh Grant has made a career out of...
