Reviews

Zola may be the first twitter thread-to-movie adaptation, or at least the first that’s made a splash. Director Bravo, with co-screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris (Slave…

The Woman in the Window is a tangle of cinematic cliches and bad impulses and inexplicable acting, adapted from a best selling novel by a noted…

This Dutch horror-comedy, in which a newspaper columnist goes full Patrick Bateman after reading the comments one too many times, piqued my interest. Alas, much…

Sentient, parasitic seaweed is on the loose in “Fury From the Deep,” a newly-animated special based on a six-episode arc from the BBC’s classic series…

Eddie Murphy is the straight man, and that’s the least of its problems.

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is, like its name, highly silly. And silly is a mood that movies lately totally underuse. The…

You know those “oops” moments when a star is caught not thanking their significant other in an awards acceptance speech? (Hilary Swank’s husband snub of…

Sundance, part two: The narrative films! These four in particular, I thought, really click with our current hellscape.

Greetings from the Sundance Film Festival, a.k.a. my living room. 

In 1964, Black icons Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown gathered in a Florida motel room one evening. This real historical anecdote…