Together: Just the Two of Us
“If they be two, they are two so / As stiff twin compasses are two: / Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show...
Sorry, Baby: That Thing
Sorry, Baby is a movie about rape, but it painstakingly does not show us the action that defines its story. An indirect approach like...
Oh, Hi!: Does That Make Me Crazy?
Since time immemorial, men have devalued what women have to say by calling them crazy. We’re aware of this now, but we should also...
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...
Queen of My Dreams: Starstruck in Karachi
A fair number of Bollywood movies have stories that stretch out over decades so that the same actor portrays a father and then his...
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...
Elio: We Are Not Alone
After Coco and Encanto, Elio is the third Pixar movie in the last eight years pitched at Spanish-speaking audiences, and if it is the...
28 Years Later: Memento Mori
Okay, this is easy. We’re getting more entertainment about the long-term effects of zombies because we ourselves survived a global plague that has killed...
Materialists: Miss Match
They’re selling Materialists as some plush New York dating comedy for the crowd that would have followed Sex and the City back in its...