He Lives!
People who work day-to-day, blue-collar, service jobs intersect most of our lives all the time, but we don’t give many if any of them...
Goddamn Amsterdam
For somewhat understandable reasons, the filmmakers and studio behind Amsterdam have buried the lede. This period satire is about a group of right-wing greedheads launching...
Coffee Pot Films
You can’t kill it.
Filmed at the Alexander Mansion in Dallas in February 2020, right before the world shut down, The Mystery Murder is a 15-minute...
Why I Won’t Watch A Ghost Story
When I learned of the latest feature-length effort from local filmmakers David Lowery, James Johnston, and Toby Halbrooks, my excitement curdled about as soon...
Lupin: Thief Robs Thief
Want to know why George Floyd’s murder last summer at the hands of cops caused protests all over the world? It’s because police brutality...
Lone Star Film Festival Preview
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in just about every film festival either being canceled (Telluride) or moving online (Cannes). This year’s edition of the...
Little Mermaid: Surf and Turf
I’ll tell you what my reaction was when I first saw Halle Bailey as Ariel in the trailer for The Little Mermaid. I thought,...
Joan of Waystar
A timely rumination on the plight of siblings affected by the black hole that substituting wealth for love creates in families, Succession was recently called...
Thor for Four
Taika Waititi won an Oscar for his script for Jojo Rabbit, and that sort of acclaim can be death for a comedy writer —...
Soundtrack: Lip It
I can’t seem to resist a musical TV show. Glee proved that it was possible to incorporate musical numbers into a narrative on an...
