Holiday Films, Oscar Bait
We have to start this piece with the strangest movie of the season and possibly the year. The Testament of Ann Lee is a musical...
Frankenstein: Your Monster
Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein plays in local theaters for two weeks before coming to Netflix, and there’s a great deal to like about...
House of Guinness: Sláinte
Steven Knight is the English screenwriter who created Peaky Blinders, and his new Netflix show, House of Guinness, has much of the same elements...
Locked Up
In 2019, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 650, which provides new rights for female prisoners and training requirements for guards working in the...
Creature Features
Few things are more comforting for me at the end of a hard day than watching a crowd of panicked humans screaming and running...
Eddington: American Disease
There was a psychological study that stated that people who habitually watched horror movies tended to bear up better during the isolation of the COVID...
Up, Up, and Away
In 2006, the characters in Superman Returns did not use the phrase “truth, justice, and the American way” because the Iraq war had left America’s...
F1: Get Into My Car
Joseph Kosinski is not my favorite director. Nevertheless F1: The Movie shows off many of the things that he does exceptionally well. His sound design...
Summer Movie Preview
Let’s skip past the introductory paragraph and dive right in. The horror movie series from the 1980s are in no small part responsible for...
Adolescence: ‘What Have You Done?’
Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a...
