Film

I try not to describe movies along the lines of, “super fun if you just shut off your brain.” Sure, there are movies that exist solely to entertain without creating an internal dialogue about humanity or getting people to face their own mortality, but no film should treat its audience like they’re stupid. There’s something deeply […]

Cool, so what you’re telling me is that summer is half over, the SAG/AFTRA/WGA strike is still (rightly) going strong and that most of the movies set to release across the rest of this year are getting moved to next year, so pretty soon theaters might not have any new movies to show? Wow. I […]

No other actor alive cares more about saving and protecting the theatrical experience more than Tom Cruise. We used to have dozens of movie stars: actors that would put butts in seats just due to their presence in a film, regardless of the quality or content. Back in the day it was Jimmy Stewart and […]

After the crushing disappointment I felt last week after watching the new Indiana Jones, I needed to scale back a little and watch some films that weren’t so deeply connected to my childhood. I went to four movies in the theater this weekend (one of which I won’t write about because I don’t need the […]

Everyone says the older you get, the faster time moves along its ever-shrinking path into the future, but the fact that we’re already halfway into 2023 feels like someone is playing games with all the clocks in my house. It’s been a half-decent half-year for movies, but the real joy for me has been found […]

I struggle with writing about Wes Anderson movies after only a single viewing. Yes, it’s possible to get a solid grasp of the themes and subtext of his films after seeing them once, but his frames are packed with so much nuance and hidden detail that there isn’t a single Anderson movie that doesn’t improve upon […]

Here’s the thing: the older I get, the easier it’s becoming for me to separate the art from the artist. But because my brain is an exhausting wasteland of contradictions, overthinking and burrito dreams, I also think a lot of artists are self-destructive, partly broken and mercurial creatures, who act more with their primordial lizard […]

Well, we’re finally hitting that time of year where some days are so hot that it’s nice to pop into a dark and air-conditioned movie theater, just to watch anything, and get cooled down after a long day in the sun. This last week I saw “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” (the entire soundtrack is […]