Eyes of Tammy Faye: Cross of Gold
When Jim Bakker was convicted on 24 counts of defrauding his investors at PTL Ministries in 1989, his wife and frequent TV host Tammy...
Malcolm in the Bottoms
For all of our society’s shortcomings, we’re in the midst of a golden age of African-American filmmaking right now. There’s a raft of reasons...
Shadow: Under My Umbrella
Fifteen years ago, Zhang Yimou made a martial-arts epic called Hero, in which every fight scene seemed to be swathed in its own definitive...
Pixar Re-Opens Its Toy Chest
The following statement is true –– and also pretty much meaningless: Toy Story 3 is the weakest Pixar movie in the last 10 years....
Extreme Job: Chicken Cops
I was waiting my whole life for someone to make a movie about fried chicken. I didn’t know that until I actually saw Extreme...
Holiday Movie Preview
Now that summer blockbuster season has bled into the Christmas period as well, we should probably start this preview of the season with the...
Long Ways From Home
Pride Month was last month, but it’s this week that two movies about gay people reach our theaters. We start with I Carry You...
Death at a Funeral: Back from the Grave
Marginally less annoying than the British movie that it’s based on, Death at a Funeral stars Chris Rock as a tax accountant/unpublished novelist named...
Happiest Season: Straight Faces
Gay people have many movies to call their own but not a Christmas movie. When you consider that Lifetime, Hallmark, and Netflix put out...
Eternals: God’s-Eye View
This was bound to happen at some point, a filmmaker goes from winning Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture to helming a Marvel...
