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 h…
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. Open…
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 lon…
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 starti…
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. …
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 t…
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…