Movie Review: The Knife
I like to think The Knife started with The League. Here’s Mark Duplass, Pete on the show, playing his own fantasy football team. He’s elated …
Thriller
Movie Review: Havoc (2025)
I want another try. The pitch for this one is awesome: “Tom Hardy navigates a crime underworld directed by The Raid director.” But our end …
Movie Review: Americana
Most of the middle road reviewed movies have high floors and low ceilings. They’re simple affairs, designed to be in & out in 100ish minutes …
Movie Review: Highest 2 Lowest
The great director cycle continues. John Ford’s westerns of the 30s and 40s as well as William Shakespeare inspired Akira Kurosawa, the great Japanese director, …
Movie Review: Strange Harvest
Strange Harvest has the rotten luck of being made in the wrong century. If this movie were made in 1995, it would have been a …
Movie Review: Eddington
Sweet, scared, Ari Aster. The master filmmaker hasn’t really recovered from the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, and astutely realized, neither has the United States. Aster drops …
Movie Review: 40 Acres
I walked in to 40 Acres knowing the premise was made a year ago, starring Halle Berry and Alexandre Aja. Read: I did NOT have …
Movie Review: Jurassic World Rebirth
Ah, leftovers. But Jurassic World Rebirth isn’t like leftover Pizza. Or leftovers from that great Michelin starred place you tried yesterday. No, Rebirth is the …
Movie Review: M3GAN 2.0
Right at the end of pride month, the queen has returned! M3GAN 2.0 pronounces the return of our beloved, murderous, AI giving Mother. In fact, …
Movie Review: The Luckiest Man in America
I remember watching clips of Press Your Luck as a kid. The dreaded Whammy acting like the Bankrupt from Wheel of Fortune, taking everyone’s money …