Taste of Things: Chef’s Kiss
The first half-hour of The Taste of Things is entirely taken up with the characters preparing a meal. First, a simple omelet for themselves:...
How to Have Sex: Trouble in Paradise
Over in the U.K., people are losing their minds over a movie with the attention-grabbing title of How to Have Sex. It popped up...
Lisa Frankenstein: Love Is Undead
Kathryn Newton has spent the last few years being cast as conventional pretty girls in such different films as the addiction drama Ben Is...
Zone of Interest: Next-Door Neighbors
I wrote in my Top 10 Movies list that Japan had a great year in 2023. I could have mentioned Germany, too. That country...
Mean Girls: It Roars
Dear God, has it really been 20 years since the original Mean Girls came out? (Not quite, but it will be in a few...
American Fiction: Little Black Book
Here’s something I didn’t know we were missing: Black literary satire. Over the years, Black cinema has poked fun of Black filmmakers (Hollywood Shuffle),...
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...
