Janet, Dammit
I seem to lack the proper appreciation for these lyrical, contemplative films about girls growing up with distant parents. You may remember that I...
Thelma: Scoot on Over
Can you make a thriller with a 93-year-old main character? Maybe it’s not as difficult as we think. Sure, a nonagenarian actor is unlikely...
Til Tuesday
“And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die,” wrote John Donne. The 17th-century metaphysical poet had a powerful imagination, but I doubt...
Inside Out 2: All the Feelings
I was going to start this review with an accounting of the ways in which Inside Out 2 fails to reach the lofty heights of...
Hot Babes
If you’re expecting Babes to be some ground-breaking, game-changing raunchy comedy about pregnancy, I’m afraid it’s not that. However, it is entirely pleasant, funny,...
Violent Nature: Back Slash
They’re selling In a Violent Nature as a retro 1980s-style horror flick. That’s not quite true, although it does have a bunch of stupid...
Furiosa: Chromeward Bound
I never saw much point in prequels, even though there’s theoretically no reason they can’t work. True, we know that their endpoint has to...
Summer Movie Preview
The conceptual problem with these movie previews is that the summer movie season typically starts at the beginning of May while we run our...
TV Glow: Pink Opaque
Who do we have in the way of trans filmmakers? We’ve had the Wachowski siblings, and now we have Jane Schoenbrun, who’s transfeminine and...
Pretty, Pretty Good Finale
If you’re a long-time HBO viewer, it’s hard not hear the carnivalesque theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm (“Frolic” by composer Luciano Michelini) directly after the...
