Vengeance: Conspiracy Theory
It’s a plot as old as plots: a city slicker comes to the countryside with preconceived notions about the rural folk and then finds...
Hansan: Naval Ops Commander
Eight years have passed between Kim Han-min’s record-breaking period naval war film The Admiral: Roaring Currents and his prequel, Hansan: Rising Dragon, which opens...
Nope: Don’t Look Up
In the remote California desert, a horse rancher ventures out to his stable late at night to find out why the lights and sprinklers...
Marcel: Shelter in Place
It’s funny — a few days ago I caught up with The House on Netflix and greatly admired the skill and imagination of that...
Deer King: Black Plague
Masashi Andō did not mean to make a movie about the COVID pandemic when he started work on The Deer King. The story, after...
Where the Crawdads Sing: Marsh Murder
I’ve got good news for all you fans of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing: It’s exactly the movie you’re looking for. The big-screen...
Korean Killer
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? By all rights, Parasite’s Oscar win for Best Picture should have started a flood of Korean movies into...
Thor for Four
Taika Waititi won an Oscar for his script for Jojo Rabbit, and that sort of acclaim can be death for a comedy writer —...
White Raven: Ukrainian Sniper
For all you fellow film freaks out there, maybe the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made you curious about what sort of movies they’ve...
Elvis: 3000 Miles From Graceland
At this point, what is left to say about Elvis Presley? The man’s life and musical career have been exhaustively mined by his descendants,...
