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Words on Bathroom Walls: Plummer and Chef
A plurality of movie theaters reopens in Tarrant County this week. Along with so much else, the coronavirus epidemic has shifted the parameters of...
Seed of the Sacred Fig: A Movie in Secret
Mohammad Rasoulof is now an exile because he made The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The Iranian director was the talk of the Cannes...
Film Shorts
Opening
Miles Ahead (R) Don Cheadle stars in his own biography of jazz icon Miles Davis. Also with Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Keith...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
I’m joining the Oscar boycott this year. It’s partly out of sympathy with #OscarsSoWhite, but it’s mostly because I don’t think any of the...
Must-TiVo TCM
Don’t miss tonight’s 8:30pm screening of Joseph Losey’s 1964 ”The Servant” on Turner Classic Movies. I’ve loved this Harold Pinter-scripted creepfest for years now,...
Re-Frozen
Let’s get this out of the way: The sequel to Frozen was never going to be as awesome or as ground-breaking as the 2013...
Justice League: Come Together
By now, you've probably heard that in the comic-book world, it was DC Comics who first got the idea to put their superheroes together...
Spaceship Earth: A Whole New World
I was a teenager in Arizona when eight scientists sequestered themselves in Biosphere 2, a geodesic dome in the desert outside Tucson containing an...
Stark Failure
Between the dimming of the lights and the opening credits, something happened when I saw the new film version of All the King’s Men....
Bonded Out
Forming a neatly rounded-off tetralogy with the previous three James Bond movies, Spectre sure feels like the end of the line for Daniel Craig...
