Shadow: Under My Umbrella
Fifteen years ago, Zhang Yimou made a martial-arts epic called Hero, in which every fight scene seemed to be swathed in its own definitive...
Avengers: The End Is Here
And we’re back. We’ve been hanging off this particular cliff for the last calendar year, ever since Thanos (Josh Brolin) snapped his fingers in...
Teen Spirit: Music Elle
Why do movies hate the music industry? They love music, and they love musicians more or less, but to hear the likes of A...
Peterloo: Monday Bloody Monday
On the rare occasions that a Mike Leigh film arrives in our multiplexes, it’s worth taking notice of. His latest, Peterloo, plays at AMC...
Hell No
There’s great movies, good movies, and bad movies. Somewhere in been good and bad is junk food cinema, which you probably call a “guilty...
Public Access
In less than a month, I will have my Master’s in Library Science — a degree that will let me explore preservation as well...
Shazam!: Superbig
They finally got it. After years of tepid reviews from critics and grumbling from fans, the decision-makers at DC Comics and Warner Bros. finally...
Us: We Have Met the Enemy
Like Stephen King, Jordan Peele is a master at setting up an aggressively normal world and then introducing details that are further and further...
Gloria in Excelsis
This Sebastián Lelio doesn’t let the moss gather. The Chilean director has now put out four films made in three countries in a span...
Climax: Dance Dance Execution
If you don’t read another word of my review of Climax, just click on the video screen below:
https://youtu.be/9n-6A6bPBA0
That’s awesome. It comes near the beginning...
