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The Zone of Interest is a movie of the mundane. A seemingly happy family, a comfortably upper-middle class couple with a passel of kids, live in a nice modern house with a lovely garden. He goes to work every day in his work uniform, slipping through the gate, walking...
What a strange year! Hollywood had a most unexpected high, where crowds flocked to theaters for the unlikely blockbuster double-feature of Barbie and Oppenheimer, that was almost immediately followed by a months-long screenwriters and SAG-AFTRA strikes that had movie production and promotion screeching to a halt. While some big...
Ridley Scott’s take on France’s tiniest tyrant is a head-scratching epic that intersperses fantastic battle scenes with a bizarre lead performance by Joaquin Phoenix as the dictator. Never trying to hide his flat American accent while surrounded by British and Continental actors, Joaquin plays the general like a eccentric...
Bayard Rustin made a massive impact on modern times, as the organizer of Martin Luther King, Jr’s hugely successful March on Washington in 1963. But you might wonder why you haven’t heard of him. Openly gay, his mere presence at the time made the very-image-conscious Civil Rights leaders nervous,...
The underdog sports movie has a tried and true formula: An unlikely hero tries, and usually initially fails to master their sport, only to persevere and triumph at the end. Nyad, the true story of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad’s mind-boggling 110-mile free swim (no protective shark cage!) from Cuba...
Oh, yessssss… The more recent Godzilla movies were something I never thought I needed after Roland Emmerich disastrously stupid 1998 movie of everyone’s favorite giant radioactive lizard. But starting with 2014’s Godzilla, I have to admit Legendary Entertainment’s reboot of the King of the Monsters and his Monsterverse kind...
Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom, Jr.), a single dad with a 12-year-old daughter, has good reason to have lost religion. He saw his pregnant wife die while they were on a photography assignment in Haiti. A killer earthquake buried his love and his faith, forcing him to make a decision:...
I have to admit, I’ve been waiting for this one! Generations of my family went to the University of Washington, and the lore of the UW crew, both men and women, is legendary in Seattle. None more so than the 1936 crew that went to the Berlin Olympics and...
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 smile, she says hesitantly, “Do you remember me?” and he chuckles quietly and places...
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, through teases like the movie Nacho Libre or mentions on The Simpsons. I had not heard of gay Mexican-American superstar Cassandro,...
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 Ferrari, and judging from the trailer, Penélope Cruz absolutely smolders as his wife...
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-star, but as director and co-writer of What Happens Later. Meg plays...
