Yesterday: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
Inevitably, I came to the Beatles through the movies. I was dimly aware of them in my childhood, but when John Lennon was killed,...
Whistle While You Work
Fort Worth has much to offer the film industry, and Rob Smat took advantage. He shot a large chunk of The Last Whistle here...
Last Black Man: I Left My Heart
Of all the great African-American movies I’ve seen in this decade, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is the hardest to categorize. It’s...
Toy Story 4: Yo Gabby Gabby
I was skeptical heading into Toy Story 4, wondering what the series had left to say. I conveniently forgot how I had the same...
American Woman: Raw Sienna
It must have been in 2003 when I happened to catch a few episodes of a British comedy cop show called Keen Eddie. (I...
Dead Don’t Die: Police vs. Zombies
I suspect that I would find The Dead Don’t Die much cooler if I’d seen it 20 years ago. Alas, this century has spoiled...
Late Night Showing
We’ve had some workplace comedies recently that aren’t about young women trying to break in but rather about older women who’ve reached the top...
Gangster Cop Devil: Roadkills
Back in the 1990s, after the success of The Silence of the Lambs, it seemed like five or 10 Hollywood movies every year were...
Rocketman: Dear John
It’s one of the less likely stories of rock history: How did a stocky, balding, bespectacled, obviously gay, not wildly good-looking piano player from...
Booksmart: Wildin’ Out
A little more than 11 years ago, Superbad came out, and amid the general appreciation for that classic of teen raunch, some people fairly...
