Movie Review: Young Washington
I can’t believe there isn’t a great Hollywood movie about George Washington. There are multiple books, documentaries and mini series, and of course, Hamilton, sorta. …
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Movie Review: A House of Dynamite
Boy did the pandemic really rattle Hollywood. Filmmakers have gone down all sorts of rabbit holes about growing distrust of institutions. Ari Aster showed how …
Movie Review: Heads of State
I was bummed when this wasn’t the sequel to Chris Rock’s Head of State. I was ready to be more bummed too the more promotional …
Movie Review: Becoming Led Zeppelin
We’re getting to a point where most of the great 1960s and 1970s rock and rollers are done touring and enjoying quiet lives at home. …
Movie Review: Red, White & Royal Blue
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: Ambulance
Good ol’ Michael Bay. Never change. Ambulance is very much in line with all of his other films, distilling American cinema into his crazy frenetic …
Movie Review: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Picture a world where Youtube and Twitter were in their infancy, and Internet Trolls were relegated to chat rooms and less mainstream parts of the …
Covid Classics: Below the Mason Dixon Line
Yes, an intimidating amount of movies take place in either New York or Los Angeles. But you can only tell the “kid with gumption trying …
Movie Review: Gloria Bell
Gloria Bell, like The Upside, is perhaps when my movie watching has jumped the shark. The minute I saw the trailer for Gloria Bell, I …
Movie Review: Citizenfour
The NSA scandal is one of the great faults of the Obama presidency, and one of the defining debates of the internet age. Citizenfour is …