Tarantino-esque
In the way that sharks come with remoras and roadkill with crows, Quentin Tarantino films are usually followed with a tail of aesthetic imitators...
Bridesmaids Takes the Cake
There’s no shortage of recent comedy films that revolve around male friendship, so where are the equivalent movies about women? When it comes to...
Hidden Figures: Fuzzy Math
Mathematics seems to be one of the hardest subjects for filmmakers to tackle. It's relatively easy to show the audience that a character is...
Invisible Man: Evidence of Things Not Seen
In 1932, Rouben Mamoulian adapted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into a film. Robert Louis Stevenson’s science-fiction novel had already been made into at...
Five Nights in Maine: Loved and Lost
Opening this week at AMC Grapevine Mills for a limited run, Five Nights in Maine is a racially charged two-hander of a bereavement drama...
Knives Out: Blanc Space
On the one hand, I wish Rian Johnson were directing the new Star Wars installment after the job he did on The Last Jedi....
Odds and Ends
I’m not completely done with the movies of 2017 — the ogres over at Sony Pictures Classics didn’t let me see Loveless and A...
The Handmaiden: Pickpocket
Korean movies don’t talk about homosexuality. Homosexuality is legal in South Korea, but a majority of people still disapprove, so it seldom comes up...
Mark Hulme’s Way
A Fort Worth native now based in Dallas, Mark Hulme has spent much of his first 50 or so years building a publishing business....
Climax: Dance Dance Execution
If you don’t read another word of my review of Climax, just click on the video screen below:
https://youtu.be/9n-6A6bPBA0
That’s awesome. It comes near the beginning...
