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