Wallis Island: Re-Harmony
The same week that Sinners opens, another movie about the power of music opens, but just at the AMC theaters at Grapevine Mills and...
Sinners: Let the White One In
Sinners begins with a prologue showing us how different cultures regarded their powerful storytellers, including the African griots. Writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t make the comparison,...
Hour of The Amateur
About half an hour into The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is lurking inside a Parisian apartment building where a terrorist (Barbara Probst) lives....
Luckiest Man: No Pressure
The odd historical drama The Luckiest Man in America takes place on the TV game show Press Your Luck. The original version of that...
Minecraft Movie: Blockheads
What’s become clear in the last decade or so is that any intellectual property can become a great movie if it’s treated with enough...
Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart
Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...
Odds and Ends
Once again, this past year yielded some movies of interest that I didn’t get to write about, mostly because they didn’t play in Tarrant...
Snow White: First Light I See Tonight
Let’s get my least favorite part of this review out of the way and run down all the controversies that have dogged the live-action...
Black Bag: Spies in the House of Love
Steven Soderbergh came up as a young Turk in the late 1980s, exploding Hollywood narrative conventions and exploring new layers of metafiction in sex,...
Novocaine: Comfortably Numb
Jack Quaid is having himself a season. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan made his film debut back in 2012, being shot...
