The Best Lead Performances of 2023
Whether they’re actually new faces or just new to this list, it’s good to see some people on this feature of mine who haven’t...
Maestro: It’s All Just Music
And now, an apocryphal story about Leonard Bernstein. Some 40 years ago, he conducted a Mozart piece at the Grammy Awards ceremony, and after...
The Iron Claw: Beyond the Ring
They’re an essential part of moviegoing and pop music. We call them heartthrobs, those softly beautiful, feminine-looking young guys whom teenage girls (and the...
The Top 10 Movies of 2023
I haven’t reviewed a lot of the movies on this annual feature of mine because they didn’t see the inside of a Tarrant County...
Poor Things: The Woman With Two Brains
What are the movies’ best takeoffs on the Frankenstein story? My inner comedy nerd says Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. Bomani J. Story’s The Angry...
Color Purple: African Violet
There was not as much outcry as you might expect when Steven Spielberg was announced as the director of The Color Purple in the...
Wonka: Hot Chocolate
What does it mean that all the actors who have played Willy Wonka on screen have been Americans? You might not have tabbed Timothée...
Eileen: Someone to Love
Recently, Saltburn took us deep into the mind of an incel. It’s not the first movie to do so, which begs the question: What...
Holiday Movie Preview
The Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes are now over, but the ripple effects are still evident at the multiplexes. The Dune sequel got bumped...
Renaissance: All You Can Bey
In the wake of the Taylor Swift documentary’s success, observers were saying that Beyoncé was perhaps the only other current pop star who could...
