Cruella: Bossypants
I’ll admit I was skeptical when I heard Emma Stone was going to play Cruella de Vil for Disney. Surely she was too young...
Quiet Place II: Beyond the Sea
I learned some things while watching A Quiet Place Part II: The farm that the Abbott family lives on is in the Appalachian Ridge...
Dream: One Horse Town
First comes the documentary with a remarkable inspirational story, then comes the inferior fiction version of it headlined by A-list stars. James Marsh’s Oscar-winning...
Riders of Justice: Mads for Revenge
With his drooping eyelids and aquiline nose, Mads Mikkelsen is often typecast by Hollywood as villains — surely you remember him hitting James Bond’s...
Spiral: Sign of the Pig
The original Saw series is a relic of the post-9/11 time when we wanted to watch bastards pay for whatever in the slowest and...
Wrath of Man: H Is for Heat
Sometimes in life, you just want to see Jason Statham shooting people. My last few movie reviews have required me to be quite serious...
Truffle Hunters: White Gold
Marcella Hazan was a great expert on Italian cuisine, and I remember reading in her The Classic Italian Cook Book that farmers would forage...
Slalom: Après Ski
The first shot of Slalom is of a teenage girl’s ass. This French movie which played at last year’s virtual Cannes Film Festival has...
In the Earth: Lost in the Woods
Most filmmaking activity has shut down during this pandemic, but not all of it. Inevitably, some directors were always going to look at the...
Odds and Ends
I couldn’t get to the few movies that are being released in theaters this week, so I thought I’d run another of my yearly...
