The Moon Is Up
Opening at AMC Grapevine Mills this weekend, The Moon is the story of a South Korean manned mission to outer space using only technology...
Theater Camp: Community
It’s been more than a quarter century since Waiting for Guffman skewered the pretensions of theatrical types with more creative passion than talent. Theater...
First Slam Dunk: Rebounding
Here’s one I didn’t see coming. I wasn’t expecting much when I went to see The First Slam Dunk in an otherwise empty theater...
Talk to Me: Left Hand of Darkness
There are some eerie similarities between the two horror movies dropping in multiplexes this weekend. Both Haunted Mansion and Talk to Me have Black...
Blow-Opp
Why do we watch a three-hour historical epic? We do it to be swallowed up. Other types of movies can make us see how...
Barb and the Real Girl
Maybe you saw the trailers for Barbie and, like me, you wondered just what this thing is. I’ve seen the movie now, and oh, let...
MI7: AI Don’t Like You
I was going to start off this review with a rant about movie franchises always breaking their final chapters into two parts, which squeezes...
Nimona: Ch-Ch-Changes
There was a mild foofaraw last fall when Pixar included an openly gay teen couple in Strange World, but that movie is hopelessly tame...
Joy Ride: Go Back to China
Back in 2004, Asian-American dudes were spotlighted in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. It should not have taken almost 20 years for...
Every Body: The In-Between
I do so like a documentary that tells me about a subject I don’t know much about. Every Body is about three people who...
