Movie Review: The First Omen
The First Omen made me mad. Not at this movie, which is shockingly pretty good! No, at David Gordon Green, who’s torpedoed TWO legendary horror …
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Movie Review: La Chimera
Thank goodness for world cinema. As much as I enjoy a new superhero saving us from a tyrannical villain every 3-6 months, other countries have …
Movie Review: Immaculate
At this point, the horror genre is inundated with scary nuns, scarier churches, and even scarier devils. One thing the church hasn’t seen yet: Sydney …
Movie Review: Ferrari
Cars and men. Men and cars. Excuse me, Mann and cars. Michael Mann doing a story about Enzo Ferrari seems like a match made in …
Movie Review: The Equalizer 3
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being …
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: Book Club: The Next Chapter
I’ve been searching for the perfect descriptor for movies like Book Club: The Next Chapter. These films are not going for transcendence like the Godfather, …
Movie Review: The Hand of God
When a really talented directors goes back to their roots to tell a deeply personal story, the results are almost always dynamite. Alfonso Cuaron had …
Movie Review: House of Gucci
House of Gucci is very much its own thing. Not serious enough to be a Godfather like study of power, greed, and fame, and too …
Movie Review: The Life Ahead
After watching Sin City, and getting, um, a little flustered at my attraction to Jessica Alba in that film, I was curious what my parents’ …