Summer Movie Preview
The conceptual problem with these movie previews is that the summer movie season typically starts at the beginning of May while we run our...
TV Glow: Pink Opaque
Who do we have in the way of trans filmmakers? We’ve had the Wachowski siblings, and now we have Jane Schoenbrun, who’s transfeminine and...
Pretty, Pretty Good Finale
If you’re a long-time HBO viewer, it’s hard not hear the carnivalesque theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm (“Frolic” by composer Luciano Michelini) directly after the...
Fall Guy: Take the Plunge
We don’t appreciate stunt performers enough, and I say that as a guy who will spend an idle five minutes watching movie and TV...
Mars Express: Red Planet Revolt
I wasn’t looking for a French update of Ghost in the Shell, but now that one is playing this weekend at AMC Grapevine Mills,...
Challengers: Love Match
The astronomy guys have this thing called the three-body problem, which you may have heard of lately because it gave its name to a...
Boy Kills World: Don’t Speak
It’s not often that a fictional character sums up the premise of his movie better than I could, but that’s what happens in Boy...
Sasquatch Sunset: The Last of Us
I don’t know if Sasquatch Sunset will wind up being the strangest movie I see in 2024, but it will definitely be a big...
Civil War: Shooting Conflict
This past week we saw Civil War, a movie about a second American civil war taking place in the near present. We are four...
Sting: Along Came a Spider
Like many people, I have seen the superbly funny YouTube clip where film director Kevin Smith describes his experiences working on an aborted Superman...
