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I had very high, if measured anticipation for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. The trailer dropped at a time that I (like most of the world) was positively thirsting for some big-screen, old-fashioned Hollywood spectacle after a dry couple years of watching Netflix at home. The thrilling trailer for Elvis teased...
Nancy (the always-glorious Emma Thompson) is a recently-widowed retired schoolteacher. Leo (Daryl McCormack) is a sex worker that Nancy has hired to meet her in a nice hotel room. She makes her request bluntly. She has never had an orgasm, with or without her only partner, her late husband...
When I heard the teaser that David Cronenberg was making a return to “body-horror” in his latest film, I, like many, knew exactly what that meant. From the hallucinogenic crawly bugs in Naked Lunch, to the literal “auto-erotic” car crash sex in Crash, to his gorey remake of The...
From the opening moment the modern Paramount logo shows up on screen with the original 80s Top Gun score by Harold Faltermeyer playing over the soundtrack, I couldn’t help but smile that I was finally getting to see Top Gun: Maverick in a movie theater. Since seeing the trailer almost...
At the start of Downton Abbey: A New Era we are given a quick recap of what’s what and who’s who by actor Kevin Doyle (who plays the bumbling Moseley), reminding us what the heck has gone on most recently with our favorite characters from the beloved Masterpiece Theater...
Peter Parker (Tom Holland) can’t seem to catch a break. After all, he spent the entire last movie just wanting to tell a girl that he liked her on their school trip, but his teenage angst was interrupted by his duty to save major European landmarks from getting destroyed...
In 1977 Soviet-occupied Estonia, Sergey (Tom Prior) is a young military conscript who is mere weeks from the end of his service. He spends his time sneaking out and swimming with his friends from the Air Force base, coyly flirts with and skitters away from his friend Luisa (Diana...
We meet young Amleth, a wincingly starry-eyed Viking princeling with a huge crush on his brutish King father (Ethan Hawke). Dad is like a traveling salesman who happens bring fresh slaves instead of trinkets as gifts for his family when he returns home after a long time away, so...
Starting off on a (very) dark note, the third film in the Fantastic Beasts series, The Secrets of Dumbledore, finds magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) going into the forest to rescue (steal?) the latest specimen for his valise of fantastic beasts, the mythical Qilin. Moments after the gentle, scaled,...
Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) is just trying to do her taxes. Swamped in handwritten receipts for her small business–a struggling laundromat that she runs with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan)–Evelyn finds herself once again across the desk from Deirdre, a stern IRS tax auditor (Jamie Lee Curtis). She can’t...
March 28, 2022–First of all, let’s congratulate the winners. CODA, a feel good movie about a (hearing) teen in a deaf family swept all three awards it was nominated for, including Best Picture. When Troy Kostur won for his Supporting Actor win for CODA, last year’s charmer Yuh-Jung Youn...
In the intro scene of The Outfit, a tailor (no, a “cutter,” as he prefers to be called), talks us through the art of designing, cutting, and tailoring a bespoke suit for a gentleman. The camera lovingly follows the hands of this man (Mark Rylance), as he unrolls reams...
