Blinded by The Lighthouse
This seems to be the year for acclaimed horror directors to make their second films: Jordan Peele with Us, Ari Aster with Midsommar, Jennifer...
Current War: AC/DC
As you may know, The Current War was scheduled to be released by The Weinstein Company in the fall of 2017 until, well, you...
Day Shall Come: Go Down, Moses
Chris Morris made one of this decade’s most brilliant movie satires when he wrote and directed Four Lions back in 2010. If you’ve never...
Monos: Monkeys Do
Of all places, the Movie Tavern at West 7th is the only Tarrant County theater showing a cool Colombian film right now. For Latin...
First Love: Miike Show
At long last, I get to write about Takashi Miike! The insane and uncategorizable Japanese filmmaker has now directed a whopping 103 feature films,...
No Laughing Matter
Joker has a problem. What could have been a dark satire and a social commentary on society and its cruelty is instead a movie...
Ad Astra: Gray Space
I remain stubbornly confounded by the adulation afforded to James Gray. Other intelligent filmgoers — both in my line of work and not —...
Hustlers: Money Moves
I’ve been on the “Jennifer Lopez can act” bandwagon ever since I saw Out of Sight back in 1998. It has been rough sledding...
Brittany: We Come Running
You don’t have to be a fitness geek with 2 percent body fat to run a marathon. In fact, it’s possible to be quite...
It Stinks
This past weekend, I saw a 2½-hour movie about a bunch of social outcasts (mostly boys with one girl) who bonded when they were...
