Depending on the times and the filmmakers, Homer’s foundational story The Odyssey has meant many things to many creative adaptors. Just two years ago, a version of the mythic action […]
The Mastermind is an indie flick, a heist movie, a period piece, and a meditation on American life, but what I failed to realize the first time I watched it […]
The latest chapter in the decades’ old Evil Dead franchise might be its nastiest and meanest yet, and while that’s not inherently a bad thing, it does seem to stray […]
I’ll fully confess to knowing nothing about the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Mary Oliver before watching this truly moving portrait of her: Mary Oliver: Saved by the […]
Canada. What makes so many of its genre films so different than your run-of-the-mill American nonsense? I wish I knew, but a prime example of that subtle but noticeable approach […]
Live-action remakes of beloved animated films are a mixed bag at best and totally unnecessary in every case. That doesn’t mean that a few of them aren’t good, but without […]
The final shot of six-year-old Frida crying her heart out, as she finally realizes that her mother is dead, in Carla Simón’s moving autobiographical debut Summer 1993 (2017) is perhaps […]
As we creep up on the 250th birthday of the good ol US of A, we’re constantly being bombarded with visions of the “good ol’ days.” And, there’s nothing inherently […]
It was apparent even in 2010, when the first Despicable Me film was released, that the Minions were always going to be the best part of this odd little universe […]
Feels like the Enola Holmes franchise (if you can call it that) has run out of steam, since this third chapter, creatively titled Enola Holmes 3, both begins and ends […]
Dense, complicated, and ultimately fascinating, the latest film from artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, At Eternity’s Gate), In the Hand […]
I fully recognize that comic performer Eric André has a large fanbase, and that means about as much to me as knowing that, at any given moment, André might take […]