Outfit: Stitch in Time
During the first moments of The Outfit, we see the protagonist (Mark Rylance) cutting fabric for a man’s suit while his voiceover narration starts...
Batman: Stuck in the Riddle with You
As comic-book villains go, the Riddler has been particularly hard to take seriously. The guy leaves cryptic clues to his crimes? What’s scary about...
Drive My Car: Backseat Confessions
By now you’ve probably heard a great deal about Drive My Car, but you still might not know what it is. It is a...
Worst Person: What’ll I Do?
So often when we see stories about women in their 30s who still haven’t figured out what to do with their lives, it takes...
Cursed: Silver Bullet
What’s there left to do with a werewolf movie? The Cursed opens locally this weekend, and while I applaud its efforts to do something...
Death on the Nile: Poirot Gets the Blues
Following up the success of his Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh has taken the same approach to Death on the Nile by...
Jockey: Last Go-Around
I’ve said it before: Great character actors deserve at least one starring vehicle in their careers. Clifton Collins Jr. is a great character actor....
Parallel Mothers: Baby Bumps
They didn’t screen Parallel Mothers for us critics here in time for awards season. Why, I can’t fathom. It’s not as if Pedro Almodóvar...
Two Movies on Netflix
The Alamo Drafthouse in Denton is opening two films this week that have been on Netflix for some weeks now, after playing briefly in...
Belle Tones
I know what social media is now. It’s a pink-haired girl singing a pop song while riding through cyberspace on the back of a...
