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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, unattainable jobs, and how...
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...
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,...
When 1969-era Indiana Jones complains that everything hurts, it is clear that he means more than that punch to the jaw, or the bullet hole in his shoulder. Indy...
Long proven and respected as a dramatic actress (hello, Oscar winner!), Jennifer Lawrence (as any YouTube surfers of celebrity interviews knows) has a killer sense of humor. Seeing how...
You can never accuse The Flash of not going big. There are multiverses, multisuperheroes, and even multiFlashes. Why have one Batman when you can have all of them? Why...
Now, as a non-believer, I unabashedly love the genre of religious horror. Show me someone possessed by a demon, or an evil flying angel, or an unfortunate victim getting...
In space stories, 65 million years is a long, long time ago. But 65 million years ago, there was apparently another universe where civilized humans existed with poor health...
Let me start by saying that this is a straight-up monster-in-the-closet movie. I’m not sure what “the mind of Stephen King” was conjuring in his short story The Boogeyman,...
There is something inescapably Portlandia about Showing Up. To be fair, it does take place in (unnamed) Portland at the (unnamed) Oregon College of Art and Craft (a real institution...
A few years ago, I went to see Judy Blume on her book tour for her latest (and she says last) novel for adults, In the Unlikely Event. Town...
For a movie that is about Michael Jordan, the first thing you notice is that you don’t see Michael Jordan. Sure, there are a few moments of the real...
