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...
Mickey 17: I Think We’re a Clone Now
Read the fine print. That seems to be the message of this season’s movies. The villain of Companion trips himself up because he fails...
My Dead Friend Zoe: She’s Not There
If this job has taught me one thing, it’s that filmmakers can make funny movies out of even really grim subjects. America’s wars in...
Oscar’s Gold
Honestly, some evil part of me wishes that Donald Trump had withheld federal aid from California after this winter’s wildfires, because then you’d really...
No Other Land: Don’t Tread on Me
Our idiot president has said that the Gazans should go find a homeland somewhere else. If he’s willing to put them up in Trump...
