Dead Don’t Die: Police vs. Zombies
I suspect that I would find The Dead Don’t Die much cooler if I’d seen it 20 years ago. Alas, this century has spoiled...
Late Night Showing
We’ve had some workplace comedies recently that aren’t about young women trying to break in but rather about older women who’ve reached the top...
Gangster Cop Devil: Roadkills
Back in the 1990s, after the success of The Silence of the Lambs, it seemed like five or 10 Hollywood movies every year were...
Rocketman: Dear John
It’s one of the less likely stories of rock history: How did a stocky, balding, bespectacled, obviously gay, not wildly good-looking piano player from...
Booksmart: Wildin’ Out
A little more than 11 years ago, Superbad came out, and amid the general appreciation for that classic of teen raunch, some people fairly...
Aladdin: When You Wish
What kinds of roles do actors of Middle Eastern descent play? Either they’re terrorists or they’re virtuous souls who suffer from terrorism, violence, prejudice,...
Summer Movie Guide
As far as movies are concerned, summer started last month with Avengers: Endgame, which is probably going to be the biggest box-office hit of...
John Wick: Last Man Standing
How many ways can you shoot a man in the face? John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum has the answer: Three, just like the...
Shadow: Under My Umbrella
Fifteen years ago, Zhang Yimou made a martial-arts epic called Hero, in which every fight scene seemed to be swathed in its own definitive...
Avengers: The End Is Here
And we’re back. We’ve been hanging off this particular cliff for the last calendar year, ever since Thanos (Josh Brolin) snapped his fingers in...
