While I don’t have much reason to interact with “incels” (involuntarily celibate [usually] men), like anyone who spends any time online, I’m familiar with the trope. Rent-a-Pal, written and directed by Jon Stevenson, […]
After winding its way through film festivals around the world since premiering at Cannes in 2019, Justine Triet’s Sibyl is now available to screen in the United State through limited-capacity theaters and at-home […]
The first thing you realize about the new Netflix drama The Devil All the Time is that it’s several smaller films in one, all of which eventually collide by the time it […]
I’m as susceptible to a halfway decent rom-com as the next human being; I’m more easily sucked in by a straight-up romantic drama, but have no objection to having a little humor […]
In a truly unique and appropriate way to view politics of the 1970s, filmmaker Mary Wharton has made a film about the campaign and one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter that views it […]
As thrillers go, the premise is promising enough: a small crew of misfits targets an empty old house for their next mark, only to be surprised when the owners return home and […]
By the time I ever heard of or laid eyes upon the cartoon character known as Pepe the Frog, created by artist Matt Furie, the character was already firmly entrenched as an […]
Modern updates of Shakespeare are always a mixed bag. But for the most part, I’m in favor of them because they open up the Bard’s work to a new generation of viewers, […]
One of the first things I noticed about the new live-action version of Disney’s 1998 animated feature Mulan is that there is a tremendous amount of bloodless death. So much, in fact, […]
Though it’s ostensibly a film about an elderly spy going undercover in a retirement home to catch the staff in their neglect and abuse of its residents red-handed, there is very little […]
In many ways, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s latest blend of action, science fiction and all things massively scaled, Tenet, is a greatest hits package for the filmmaker, in all the good and bad […]
As he seems to excel at doing in one screenplay after another (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation., Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), as well as with the […]
