Spirit Untamed: Even Cowgirls Give the Blues
Back in 2002, I saw Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and then more-or-less instantly forgot everything about it except for Bryan Adams singing (which...
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...
