Oscar’s Hidden Gold
The latest firestorm to engulf the Oscar ceremony is the decision to relegate eight categories from the live TV broadcast to taped footage presented...
X Murderers
The appropriately titled X takes place in 1979, when Houston strip club owner Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson) decides to make his own porn film....
Outfit: Stitch in Time
During the first moments of The Outfit, we see the protagonist (Mark Rylance) cutting fabric for a man’s suit while his voiceover narration starts...
Batman: Stuck in the Riddle with You
As comic-book villains go, the Riddler has been particularly hard to take seriously. The guy leaves cryptic clues to his crimes? What’s scary about...
Drive My Car: Backseat Confessions
By now you’ve probably heard a great deal about Drive My Car, but you still might not know what it is. It is a...
Worst Person: What’ll I Do?
So often when we see stories about women in their 30s who still haven’t figured out what to do with their lives, it takes...
Cursed: Silver Bullet
What’s there left to do with a werewolf movie? The Cursed opens locally this weekend, and while I applaud its efforts to do something...
Death on the Nile: Poirot Gets the Blues
Following up the success of his Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh has taken the same approach to Death on the Nile by...
Jockey: Last Go-Around
I’ve said it before: Great character actors deserve at least one starring vehicle in their careers. Clifton Collins Jr. is a great character actor....
Parallel Mothers: Baby Bumps
They didn’t screen Parallel Mothers for us critics here in time for awards season. Why, I can’t fathom. It’s not as if Pedro Almodóvar...
