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,...
Guardians of the Galaxy : Raccaccoonie
The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie had that one scene where a drunken Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) starts a bar brawl while wailing about...
Polite Society: Is This the Ria Life?
In 2021, I reviewed the TV comedy series We Are Lady Parts. That was the creation of Nida Manzoor, but since then, the show...
It’s Me, Margaret: Jersey Girl
This film version of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret comes to us at a time, doesn’t it? We have certain politicians — and...
Chevalier: Black Violin
I’m an editor on Genius.com, and in that capacity I learned about Joseph Bologne, the 18th-century man better known by his title of the...
