Long Walk: Ease on Down the Road
Stephen King was still a teenager when he started writing The Long Walk, which he eventually published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. He meant...
Splitsville: My Best Friend’s Wife
Men talk about this a lot: The ultimate betrayal a man can make of his male friend is to have sex with that man’s...
Caught Stealing: Giants Fan
In some ways, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing reminds you of his first feature film π. It’s set in 1998, when π was released, it...
Demon Hunters: K-Pow
I went to my doctor’s office last week for my annual physical, and while they were testing my hearing, I had to tell them...
Ne Zha II: Ha Zha Zha
If you’ve heard anything about Ne Zha II, it’s likely about the insane box-office numbers that it did this past spring. The animated sequel...
East of Wall: Land of Bad
East of Wall signals right away that it’s a modern Western, starting with TikTok videos that the main characters have made of their horses....
Weapons: Suburban Legend
A horror movie that proves that there’s still original storytelling left at our multiplexes, Weapons begins with voiceover narration by a little girl (Scarlett...
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...
