Strange Animal
If I’d known that The Host was opening in Grapevine as well as Dallas last week, I would have reviewed it on time.
I couldn’t...
Nomadland: On the Road Again
Her name is Chloé Zhao, and she makes Westerns. It may seem odd that this 38-year-old native of Beijing found herself at home in...
Matrix: Techno Is Dead
“Nothing comforts anxiety like fake nostalgia,” says one of the characters in The Matrix Resurrections. Yeah, they said that to me as I watched...
Iron Lady: Tory Details
More than 20 years after she left office as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher now enjoys a much higher reputation in America...
Push Button, End Life
Poor Andrew Niccol. He wants so badly to be that guy, you know? The New Zealand-born filmmaker has been toiling in Hollywood since the...
On the Line
Denton-born and -raised filmmaker and actor Laurence Maher is new to the experience of being interviewed by the press, so he thinks hard about...
Tank Busting
I rather liked David Ayer’s last film, the 2012 found-footage cop drama End of Watch. The financial success of that movie has allowed him...
Yes, Maugham
Mark this as one of those coincidences that occasionally pop up within the format of this page.
Both The Painted Veil and The Last...
Playing Serious
When The Queen came out two years ago and scored a bunch of Oscar nominations and an eventual Best Actress win for Helen Mirren,...
Dating Games with Shut Up and Prance
Talking to some filmmaking teams is like talking to a smoothly oiled publicity machine. Talking to the comedy troupe/filmmaking collective Shut Up and Prance...
