Challengers, an erotic sports drama from Call Me by Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino, feels like a movie reverse-engineered from tennis grunts sounding like sex noises. Tennis is sex, the film…
Another year, another Phoenix Film Festival! The biggest event for AZ movie lovers is back, and it runs from April 4th to April 14th at the Harkins Scottsdale 101. I…
Dune: Part Two begins just like Part One: alien throat singing piercing the darkness before the studio logos appear. It surprised me the first time, and it also did the…
Madame Web could never have gotten off on the right foot. It’s coming amid a superhero bust, for one—the MCU has overworked itself into a soulless content mill, DC is…
May December is not an easy film to parse. There’s the backstory, based on a true story, of a teacher who “fell in love with” (heavy on the quotation marks)…
Priscilla Presley is precisely the kind of person you’d expect to write a memoir—marry one of music’s most public public figures and your life is narrativized, sensationalized, co-opted by the…
The first of many to die in Killers of the Flower Moon is seen dying from above. He’s an Osage Native American, poisoned, writhing on the floor and foaming at…
David Farrier, a New Zealand journalist with a nose for the bizarre, came to mainstream attention with the documentary Tickled, which starts as an investigation of “competitive tickling” videos and…
The most interesting thing about stories about AI (not stories by AI, which are much less interesting) is the mirror they hold up to human existence. If consciousness can arise…
A Haunting in Venice opens not just in Venice but in the Venice of someone’s nightmare, in St. Mark’s Square, looking like it does in my dreams (empty for once).…
Alex Winter, who Arizonans may know as Bill S. Preston, Esq. from the locally filmed Bill & Ted, has spent the last decade-plus as an accomplished documentarian, covering subjects from…
This review was written during the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors on strike, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem wouldn’t exist. Thankfully,…
