Film, Science Fiction
Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By now, the MCU has lost most of its capacity for surprise, so the most surprising aspect of Ant-Man…
May 28, 2023
Comedy, Drama, FilmFilm: Flux Gourmet
Weirdness for the sake of weirdness can have its charms, and in its own perverse way, Flux Gourmet (2022)…
May 15, 2023
Comedy, Fantasy, Film, GamesFilm: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
On the spectrum of D&D fandom, I’m somewhere in the middle: enough history with the game to remember it…
May 7, 2023
Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: The Drowning Pool
Nearly ten years after Harper comes The Drowning Pool (1975). This sequel once again banks on Paul Newman’s good…
April 30, 2023
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: How It Ends
Future media historians writing about film production from the COVID-19 pandemic will find a perfect case study in How…
April 24, 2023
Film, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: Harper
Technicolor nihilism, anyone? Harper (1966) is so bright and shiny, its grim trajectory and potently cynical characters come as…
April 24, 2023
Comedy, Film, ThrillerFilm: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Compared to many, I’ve been an infrequent passenger on the Nicholas Cage train, which should explain my initial indifference…
April 17, 2023
Film, Horror, ThrillerFilm: Smile
Trailers are usually lost on me—I try to avoid them, since so many telegraph the entire plot—but some previews…
April 1, 2023
Comedy, Drama, FilmFilm: Babylon
Hollywood does like to celebrate itself. There are films that genuinely create movie magic, and then there’s Babylon (2022),…
April 1, 2023
Comedy, FilmFilm: Triangle of Sadness
If Force Majeure established Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s bona fides as a cinema provocateur, Triangle of Sadness (2022) etches…
March 13, 2023
Comics, Film, Science FictionFilm: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nobody was happier than I was when Marvel started to conquer Hollywood, but it’s been losing its mojo for…
March 7, 2023
Drama, Film, History, Spies, Thriller, World War IIFilm: Narvik
While my interest World War II has cooled in recent years, I’m still intrigued by the era, especially when…
February 20, 2023
Comedy, Drama, FilmFilm: Somebody I Used to Know
Dave Franco’s second directorial effort, Somebody I Used to Know (2023), isn’t quite as memorable as his first (The…
February 14, 2023
Comedy, Fantasy, FilmFilm – Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023