Furie: Oh, Ngô!
Martial-arts films have been a financial mainstay and a source of pride for the movie industries of China and Japan. More recently, South Korea,...
Honk for Jesus: The Pastor’s Wife
The latest film about the Black church is the mockumentary comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. It’s by no means the best; The...
Rogue One: Suicide Squad
At the risk of boasting, back when Disney and Lucasfilm announced the plot of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I sniffed out how...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Cruella: Bossypants
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard Emma Stone was going to play Cruella de Vil for Disney. Surely she was too young...
Sputnik: Passenger
For decades, Russian filmmakers have largely ignored the international audience. They’ve made films strictly for domestic moviegoers, because there have been enough of those...
Frankenweenie: Ghost Dog
Expanded from the same 1984 short film that got Tim Burton fired as a Disney animator, Frankenweenie (which Burton has made under Disney’s auspices,...
Mighty Orphans Await Kickoff
“Everything about Hollywood has surprised me,” said Russell Morton, a third-generation Fort Worth native who recently moved back here from New York City. “I’m...
Isle of Dogs: The Search for Spots
I’ve seen a lot of movies about dogs, and as with most other subjects, some of them have been terrific (Best in Show) and...
Despicable Me: One to Gru On
The trailer for Inception has caused a stir in movieland by being mysterious and not giving away too much of the movie’s plot. Well,...
