Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Drama
Revoir Paris (2023)
The other day my local news reported a memorial for a mass shooting. I asked my wife a startling question, “Which mass shooting are they talking about?” She didn’t know. There have been so many lately that I can’t tell one from another. It is startling to think that they have become part of our […]
Daliland (2023)
I have seen John Walsh’s Daliland twice. The first time, admittedly, it went over my head as I struggled to figure out what I had missed. What is this movie trying to say about the 20th century’s most eccentric artistic mind? The second time, I think I understood it slightly better but I was nowhere […]
Flamin’ Hot (2023)
Ever since Everything, Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar for Best Picture, I’ve been begging for more original content – more films that aren’t sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes, reimaginings, or another universe-building collection of cacophonous hoo-ha. I can’t call Flamin’ Hot – the story of the guy who invented Flaming Hot Cheetos – the most original story […]
The Mother (2023)
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Netflix releases Niki Caro’s Lion-Mom action picture The Mother, which is about an unfussy and unchallenging as an expensive, high-gloss paint-by-numbers action movie can get. Its an odd choice from a director previously responsible for more cerebral fare like Whale Rider and North Country. The Mother stars Jennifer Lopez […]
Dead Ringers (2023)
The most refreshing thing about Amazon Prime’s Dead Ringers, the new 6-part miniseries based on David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller is that it has a reason to be. At a moment when everything is being remade, rebooted and repackaged, it is nice to find familiar subject matter that has a clever twist and ties in our […]
Beau is Afraid (2023)
In the wake of two grand horror epics, Hereditary and Midsommar, director Ari Aster was asked what he might be doing next. He hinted that he might want to try a comedy – something a bit away from his previous work. That’s probably best. I think, by this point, he’s pretty much sapped the horror […]
One True Loves (2023)
I read a lot of books, and in trying to find something that strikes my fancy, my eyes often glaze across the name Taylor Jenkins Reid. Knowing the genre that she works in – easily digestible romantic hoo-ha with no beef on it whatsoever – I glaze across the covers and generally keep moving. Now, […]
Creed III (2023)
My nerves jangle every time a new extension of the Rocky series comes around. Will this be the one to kill the series? I have seen it happen before – Rocky IV! Rocky V! When will it run out of energy? Fortunately, ever since Stallone decided to bring the series back down to Earth with […]
