Review: Family Comedy About My Father Works Best When It Doesn’t Try Quite So Hard to Be Funny
While the new film starring and co-written by stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, About My Father, is a decidedly average autobiographical…
Review: Kandahar Is Less Action Pic, More a Statement on the Futility of War
The third film from the director-actor combo of Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler (Angel Has Fallen, Greenland) is a…
Review: In Its Latest Live-Action Adaptation, Disney Drains The Little Mermaid of All Its Magic, Charm
The 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid ushered in a new golden era of Disney’s storied animation legacy. A…
Review: With a Compelling Central Performance, Influencer Makes the Instagram Life a Dangerous Career Choice
In ways that probably won’t make any sense unless you actually see Influencer, the new film by director Kurtis David…
Recap: Succession (S4, Ep8) — Kendall Is Tested on a Strenuous Election Night
With how watchable, well-written, and entertaining Succession‘s characters are to watch, I find it too easy to forget that, at…
Review: Exorcism in Utero Plays Its Horror, Comedy Too Silly to Be Truly Scary
Marking his feature film debut, writer/director Erik Skybak brings us the tantalizingly titled Exorcism In Utero, about Herma Frigg (Sam…
Review: The Fire That Took Her Is a True-Crime Documentary Meant to Enrage and Inspire
This is a documentary you won’t soon forget, and that’s exactly the point. Filmmaker Patricia E. Gillespie (The Devil You…
Recap: Barry (S4, Ep6) — A Dark Episode Digs for the Root of Barry’s Choices
Perhaps the biggest mystery Barry has to offer is why Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) makes the choices he does. He’s…
Recap: Love & Death (S1, Ep5) — A Brief Glimpse of Candy’s Motives Creates a (Slightly) Better Late-Season Episode
There’s a stylistic choice about halfway through “The Arrest” that I really enjoyed. Candy Montgomery (Elizabeth Olsen), her murder of…
Recap: White House Plumbers (S1, Ep2) — Hunt and Liddy Move Up in the World, but Second Episode Feels Stagnant
Gotta say, I’m a little disappointed. Though the White House Plumbers‘ premiere was flawed, I found it to be a…
Recap: Succession (S4, Ep7) — A Miserable Party Reveals Everyone’s True Nature
One thing I’ve found when it comes to watching Succession live is that it really benefits from two watches. With…
Review: In L’Immensita, a Trans Boy Tries to Make Sense of Life in 1970 Rome
A child today who realizes that the gender they were assigned at birth is not the gender they are can…
