LOTR: Holding Out for a Héra
When I wrote up my holiday movie preview last week, I wondered if a Japanese anime treatment of The Lord of the Rings would...
Order: Idaho White
I can’t escape Nicholas Hoult this season. He’s currently starring in Juror #2 and he has a prominent role in the upcoming Nosferatu, but...
Moana: Second Wave
Disney’s Moana 2 begins with our heroine (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho) now a full-fledged wayfinder of her tribe who’s tasked with finding other inhabited...
Gladiator: Fight On
I didn’t have the highest hopes for Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator. Granted, I enjoyed his 2000 Roman epic, but his sequels to Alien were...
Wicked: Fo’ Shiz
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard that they were breaking up the film version of Wicked into two movies. Like most Broadway musicals...
Emilia Pérez: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Trans musicals are officially a thing now. For years, Hedwig and the Angry Inch had the field to itself. Since then, it’s been joined...
Real Pain: Polonaise
I wasn’t all that impressed with Jesse Eisenberg’s directing debut, the teen drama When You Finish Saving the World. His second movie as director,...
Memoir of a Snail: Shelled
We need to have a moratorium on movie protagonists named Grace. To be clear, I have nothing against that name per se. It’s a...
Heretic: American Pie
A couple of decades ago, I was growing impatient with Hugh Grant. I found him guilty of giving the same bumbling, stammering performance in...
Anora: Put a Ring on It
The first rule of dating a Russian oligarch is: Don’t ever ask where their money comes from. The title character of Anora breaks this...
