They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for July, 2023
Kokomo City (2023)
Smith’s Kokomo City is the kind of film that makes you grateful for the documentary form. At a moment when new voices are crying out to be heard, it is often found that certain voices are silenced for fear of the backlash from the larger portion of the population. At this juncture, it is difficult […]
Barbie (2023)
For me, the single funniest moment in Barbie happens in the first three minutes – a hilarious parody of the “Dawn of Man” sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey featuring little girls whose choice of dolls have only ever been baby dolls. Into their midst comes a 50-foot monolith in the shape of a babelicious […]
Afire (2023)
Here in the third week of July, when fully 90% of the moviegoing public is going to give their love to The Barbenheimer (I did), it’s unlikely that any will pass them up for a quiet character-study from Germany about a potential loser and his friends trapped by a wild fire. This is the film […]
They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
Juel Taylor’s bizarre conspiracy sci-fi comedy They Cloned Tyrone drops onto Netflix with very little fanfare this weekend, and that’s both a blessing and a curse. It was filmed in 2020 (note that it co-stars Jamie Foxx, whose health issues were reported months ago) and made a strong showing at the American Black Film Festival […]
Oppenheimer (2023)
The first time that I ever saw J. Robert Oppenheimer was in the famous black and white film in which he recounted the first test of the atomic bomb. It is the moment we all remember – his whole face in the camera, recalling the reaction to the test by the scientists and military, called […]
“No Popcorn, Please” | The Armchair Blog
Movies to me are like food – some are nutritious for your mental health while most, you’ll agree, are not. Take this weekend for example. There’s Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – your meat and potatoes. There’s the documentary Lakota vs. United States which would be your vegetables. And there is Barbie, which is definitely your dessert. […]
Two Tickets to Greece (2023)
Going in, I had no idea what Two Tickets to Greece was about. Given the title, I kind of expected yet another wacky vacation-gone-wrong comedy, an inheritor to National Lampoon’s Vacation which just turned 40, or on the downside, something like the recent yawn-inducing Joy Ride. The result: Yes, it’s about a vacation where nothing goes right, but its […]
Sound of Freedom (2023)
I arrived at Sound of Freedom, the latest Christian booster drama a few weeks ago with a certain expectation wrapped in negativity that comes with experience. Since the boom of this religious-based genre began in the middle part of the last decade, I have put myself through a fair amount of these films, and my […]
