Movie Review: Elemental
So close! The base story in Pixar’s Elemental is a terrific one, but it never quite becomes one of those special Pixar projects kids and …
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Movie Review: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
It’s pretty impossible not to love Michael J. Fox. At first he was the lovable Reaganite from Family Ties, then the great teenage everyman Marty …
Movie Review: The Blackening
Even by the 1990s I knew how condescending and racist it was that the black character would die first in every horror movie. Hollywood is …
Movie Review: The Flash
How you feel about The Flash is maybe the ultimate movie Rorschach test. If you’re someone like Tom Cruise, you think it’s the greatest movie …
Movie Review: Sanctuary
There will be no kink shaming here. For the Puritans in the crowd, a kink is a person’s personal sexual fetish. For movie history, kinks …
Movie Review: The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl firmly plants its flag in Karl Marx’s view of religion. An opiate of the masses, fundamentalist religious beliefs in conservative communities are …
Movie Review: L’immensita
It’s easy to make a movie about families helping each other and loving one another. It’s also easy to make a psychotic family that gets …
Movie Review: Evil Dead Rise
I suppose IP matters more than anything in 2023. Evil Dead Rise needs the name for the movie to get made. But I’m pretty sure …
Movie Review: Chevalier
History is written by the victors, so thank god for whomever kept track of the works of Joseph Bologne. The talented chevalier, violinist, composer, and …
Movie Review: Judy Blume Forever
When you’re a kid, you’re usually bombarded with all sorts of books to read of all types. So many in fact, that very few stick …