Candyman: Sweet Inspiration
The original Candyman isn’t a good movie, but you can easily see why it struck a chord back in 1992. Before horror films made...
Cryptozoo: Fantastic Beasts
We know about outsider art, but is there such a thing as outsider animation? If there is, then Cryptozoo certainly belongs to that category....
Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
Free Guy: Not PC
I started playing SimCity in the early days of the lockdown. I did it out of sheer, soul-crushing boredom and quickly became addicted to the...
The Suicide Squad: You Kill Me
Let’s all just pretend that the original Suicide Squad movie never happened, okay? I’m so ready to do that, especially now that I’ve seen...
Annette: La La La Means I Love You
Leos Carax! You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to write about this French filmmaker whose view of life and movies is...
Green Knight: Headless Horseman
I’ve previously aired my issues with British color-blind casting, but it’s doing one good thing: It’s turning Dev Patel into an unstoppable force. The...
Stillwater : Marseillaise
Last week, we had a movie about a straight, working-class father struggling to deal with his child’s homosexuality. This week comes another one, though...
Long Ways From Home
Pride Month was last month, but it’s this week that two movies about gay people reach our theaters. We start with I Carry You...
Pig in the City
I have here a movie called Pig, a suspense thriller in which the stringy-haired protagonist stares into space and says, “Who has my pig?”...
