There's a moment so gentle and lovely in The Unknown Country: A young woman named Tana (Lily Gladstone) meets her great-uncle (Richard Ray Whitman) for the first time since she was a child. With a smi…
What little I know about lucha libre, the super-popular Mexican wrestling involving face masks, character personas, and elaborate costumes, has been from glimpses in mainstream American pop culture, t…
We've seen Ford's side of the story in Ford v Ferrari, but now Michael Mann gives us a peek into the legendary Ferrari that started it all. Adam Driver, in steel-gray slicked-back hair, stars as Enzo …
As one YouTube commenter noted, it's nice to see trailer for a rom-com that doesn't star 25-year-olds for a change. And Meg Ryan fans will be delighted to see her return to the genre, not only as co-s…
Bradley Cooper is back as director/actor in the anticipated Maestro, which looks to be less of a profile of Leonard Bernstein (Cooper looks strikingly like the conductor in the trailer), and more of a…
The Last Voyage of the Demeter piqued my interest because it had two of my favorite genres in one: religious/supernatural horror and a tall-masted ship on a voyage of doom. Even better, Last Voyage is…
Casey Affleck is so good at portraying a sort of world weariness, the type that looks like it will make you buckle and fall to your knees on a bad day. As Donnie Emerson, he’s a guy that has made a ca…
Many navel-gazing indie flicks swirl around a tried and true trope: the urban neurotic, narcissistic, sarcastic, self-pitying, supposedly irresistible man-child that pines about unattainable women, un…
From the first teaser for Barbie, a winking reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey's "dawn of man" opening scene, Greta Gerwig's big-screen movie of the iconic toy looked surprisingly promising. The marke…
Of his infamous deadly creation the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." Oppenheimer, cele…
Funny enough, just last night I saw the season three Ted Lasso episode where Higgins dismisses an erratic billionaire as having the "temperament of one of those kids in Willy Wonka that gets murdered …
Ridley Scott's Gladiator made Joaquin Phoenix a bonafide star with his scene-stealing turn as the ruthless Commodus, so there has been great anticipation to see what this director/actor duo could do w…
