Indiana Jones: If I Could Turn Back Time
The most remarkable thing about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny happens right at the beginning. In an extended prologue set during the...
No Hard Feelings: Jen X
We’ve seen before how actors win Oscars or even just get a nomination and react to it by turning all serious. They take roles...
Blackening: Behind the Green Door
This Juneteenth weekend comes The Blackening, which happens to be pegged to our newest national holiday. It’s adapted from a 2018 short film by...
Back Flash
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, The Flash makes history this week. It’s the first-ever major Hollywood movie with an openly gender-fluid lead actor. This...
Spider-Man: Miles Deep
What a treat the Spider-Verse series is for the eyes. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse begins with an extended pre-credit sequence following Gwen Stacy (voiced...
Little Mermaid: Surf and Turf
I’ll tell you what my reaction was when I first saw Halle Bailey as Ariel in the trailer for The Little Mermaid. I thought,...
You Hurt My Feelings: The Whites of Their Lies
More than 20 years I’ve been banging on about Nicole Holofcener in these pages. I’m not sorry, either. She came up during the indie-film...
About My Father: Papa Loves Mambo
I caught Sebastian Maniscalco’s standup act in the early 2000s, and I didn’t care for him, with all his judgments on how men and...
Summer Movie Preview
In encouraging news for theaters, the summer season has already started out with hit returns for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Fast X....
BlackBerry Crumble
I never had a BlackBerry. Child of frugal immigrants that I am, I hung onto my early-1990s landline phone until it breathed its last,...
