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,…
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors on strike, the film covered here wouldn’t exist. The cast of…
In case you haven’t heard, the writers’ and actors’ guilds of America are currently on strike together for the first time since 1960 because film studios are treating them like—and…
I love the Mission: Impossibles for what they are now—glossy, winking Tom Cruise vehicles for his superhuman practical stunt work—but it’s hard to deny something’s been lost over the years.…
Indiana Jones knows how to set a tone. Raiders opens with one of the most cleverly conceived set pieces in adventure film history, birthing an icon in an instant, and…
