Movie Review: Blonde
Blonde is beautiful crap. Andrew Dominik, the director, can do both. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is critically one of …
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Movie Review: Smile
A great marketing campaign can do wonders for a movie. The Blair Witch Project comes to mind: everyone thought that footage was real. So does …
Movie Review: Moonage Daydream
Most documentaries stick to a well trodden layout that works. A few talking heads, some well designed statistical graphics, and a little voiceover helps the …
Movie Review: Bros
The saddest development of the last 10 years is watching studio comedies slowly fall by the wayside. One of the reasons I got into movie …
Movie Review: Do Revenge
Teens always gonna teen. In the 1980s, Heathers bleakly took the concepts of teen social power struggle and went about upending them…through murder. Netflix and …
Movie Review: Don’t Worry Darling
Tumultuous. Don’t Worry Darling has been doomed from the get go with its litany of offscreen drama. Did director Olivia Wilde hookup with Harry Styles? …
Movie Review: See How They Run
Listen up, kids. Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig REVIVED the murder mystery genre. The OG’s of that genre are Edgar Allen Poe and especially Agatha …
The 2022 Fall Movie Season: The Oscar Contenders
The October-December movie slate is Oscar Season, meaning supposedly the best of the best films of the year should come out at this time. Usually …
Movie Review: Robert Zemeckis’s Pinocchio
What happened? Disney took 3 things I usually love: Pinocchio, Tom Hanks, and director Robert Zemeckis, and somehow combined them into this unholy concoction that’s …
Movie Review: Confess, Fletch
When Hollywood see Jon Hamm, they see a hunky, beautiful man made out of marble, ready to be used as eye candy in military uniforms …