Film: How It Ends
Future media historians writing about film production from the COVID-19 pandemic will find a perfect case study in How It Ends (2021)—not just for its technical execution, but for its …
Film: Babylon
Hollywood does like to celebrate itself. There are films that genuinely create movie magic, and then there’s Babylon (2022), which reveres movie magic so blatantly it dispels much of its …
Film: Don’t Worry Darling
Early on, it didn’t seem likely to me that Don’t Worry Darling (2022)—a major release that saw as much behind-the-scenes drama as it did onscreen, if not moreso—could possibly fulfill …
Film: Booksmart
If only there had been more movies like Booksmart (2019) around when I was growing up. Outwardly, this one’s set from the same mold of other raunchy coming-of-age comedies, but …
Film: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
What a fascinatingly terrible movie. I’m not sure why the dial stopped on The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), but once I started watching, I couldn’t look away. It’s like rubbernecking at a …