Movie Review: The Fabelmans
It’s Steven Spielberg’s time. In the age of director origin stories (Roma, The Hand of God, Belfast, Armageddon Time), it was only a matter of …
Drama
Movie Review: Argentina, 1985
My ignorance never let me know there was another Nuremberg trials. Down in Argentina, the old military leaders faced a similar trial against the new …
Movie Review: The Good Nurse
No, The Good Nurse is not the latest CBS procedural. It’s wildly the opposite of that: a lifetime movie masquerading as a prestige drama. Netlifx, …
Movie Review: Aftersun
Wow, I was such a dick on my vacation at 11 years old. Mine was in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, where I did NOT …
Movie Review: Armageddon Time
Make something personal. That’s the advice given to EVERY moviemaker on the planet. Well, James Gray, I hope you go back to space, or the …
Movie Review: Call Jane
Who is Jane? We all should be. The Jane Collective was a group that ran out of Chicago from 1969 to 1973, helping women who …
Movie Review: The Banshees of Inisherin
I have a few filmmakers who always find my funny bone. There’s obvious ones, like Judd Apatow, or Adam McKay, who’ve made some of the …
Movie Review: Decision to Leave
Thanks to Squid Game, BlackPink, BTS, and Parasite, the US has fully embraced the Korean cultural revolution. Forgotten in this explosion is the incredible Park …
Movie Review: Catherine Called Birdy
O, to be young…and be a girl in an oppressive patriarchal society. Lena Dunham certainly experienced her fair share of this unfortunate rite of passage …
Movie Review: Till
Reading about the death of Emmett Till is one of those experiences that makes you grow up a little, as you learn about the depths …