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Soccer Goes to the Movies
I’m Kristian Lin, but for the duration of the World Cup soccer tournament, you can call me Brad Janovich. I’m not as bad as...
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...
Dandelion: Once in a Generation
Why isn’t KiKi Layne a bigger name? It’s still early, but she’s been mightily impressive since turning in a luminous romantic performance in Barry...
Googly Oogly Oogly
Cast your mind back to 2005 for a second, when MySpace was the internet’s hottest website, Desperate Housewives was the most exciting new show...
Rick Perry Reviews Aren’t Great
The Stepford Wives grin...George W. Bush bluster...Rush Limbaugh insensitivity...Cliff Clavin world insight...it was there for all to see.
Rick Perry made his national TV splash...
Film Shorts
OPENING
Collateral Beauty (PG-13) Will Smith stars in this magical-realist drama as a man who receives visits from Love, Time, and Death (Keira Knightley, Jacob...
Film Shorts // October 5-11, 2022
OPENING
Ask Me to Dance (PG) Tom Malloy stars in his own romantic comedy as a man who’s destined to meet his soulmate before the...
A Lonely Holdout in District 9
One of my fellow film critics has caused a bit of a dust-up: Writing in the New York Press, Armond White trashed District 9...
Film Shorts
Opening
The Boss (R) Melissa McCarthy stars in this comedy as a disgraced business mogul who seeks to restart her career after being released from...
The No Has It
Where advertising and politics meet, movies usually turn cynical and satiric. Political ads foul our airwaves, reduce complex policies to soundbites, pander to our...
