
Film: Spin Me Round
Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022In retrospect, I should have gone back to the original, to better provide a legitimate comparison. Instead, I leave…
August 21, 2022I have no particular affinity for the Predator franchise, and it seems I missed a whole passel of sequels…
August 21, 2022Steven Soderbergh is always worth checking out, and while Unsane (2018) isn’t his most accomplished outing, it’s a classy,…
August 15, 2022Paul Thomas Anderson’s films can be on the perverse side — almost always striking, compelling, and immersive, but often…
August 14, 2022Brian De Palma’s early work often engenders a schizophrenic reaction in me, enticing with cagey genre content and cinephile…
August 7, 2022Films don’t need to be huge and flashy to be effective, and The Rental (2020) is a slick little…
August 2, 2022John Frankenheimer’s output from the 1960s is stylish, stirring, and memorable, but his later work doesn’t tend to work…
August 2, 2022Somewhere in Madame Claude (2021) is an interesting tale of historical intrigue, but it doesn’t quite make it out.…
August 2, 2022Disaster films are all about the spectacle, of course, and if gauged on that score alone, Poseidon (2006) –…
July 31, 2022Something about the grungy look and feel of seventies cinema appeals to me, and Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)…
July 25, 2022Edgar Wright has gifted us with the likes of Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs.…
July 19, 2022It usually pays off to follow director Denis Villeneuve wherever he goes, so how about to the planet Arrakis?…
July 4, 2022Back during the Spy 100 Project I rather enjoyed the staid spy film The Man Who Never Was, which…
July 4, 2022While it doesn’t have particularly good control of its messaging, Disney’s Encanto (2021) is a gorgeously animated film with…
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