Tears, laughter, and breast pumps abound in Tully
Even before she took home a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003’s Monster, Charlize Theron had be... Continue Reading
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Dirty dogs have their day in stunning Isle of Dogs
Although Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs stirred up its fair share of controversy when it was in theaters due to complaints about its classic, “... Continue Reading
Spielberg is off his game with Ready Player One
Ask any ten serious gamers what they think about Steven Spielberg’s latest big budget, page-to-screen adaptation Ready Player One and you’ll... Continue Reading
The Leisure Seeker takes plot and pot holes in stride
Like most memorable real-life road trips, my favorite road trip movies are those that take time to capture the inevitable friction that deve... Continue Reading
Silence is terrifyingly golden in A Quiet Place
Proving that horror films don’t need to be loud to be scary, A Quiet Place, using only a handful of scenes with actual spoken dialogue... Continue Reading
Money walks, talks, and kills in Have a Nice Day
Although you’d never know it from the film’s wry, deadpan screenplay or grungy, gorgeously rendered hand-drawn animation, Chines... Continue Reading
The Commuter is slow train to snoozeville
Although I’m usually a total sucker for a really great thriller set entirely in one location – classic one-location wonders like... Continue Reading
Ring out Pride Month with A Fantastic Woman
Call Me by Your Name may have grabbed more headlines and big-ticket Oscar nominations during Hollywood award-season, but when it comes to tr... Continue Reading
All you need is love in Love, Simon
No matter where you stand politically, it has been a rough couple of weeks to be an American. And if you’re feeling as bruised and bat... Continue Reading
A Wrinkle in Time needs a good pressing
From a historical perspective, Ava DuVernay’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s YA classic A Wrinkle in Time i... Continue Reading
Timely pregnancy drama Invisible offers no easy answers
With Ireland voting overwhelmingly to repeal its near-total ban on abortions last month and women’s reproductive rights being slowly c... Continue Reading
Everyone’s a winner at this Game Night
Hollywood multi-hyphenate John Francis Daley might not be the first name that springs to mind when people talk about the breakout stars from... Continue Reading
The Greatest Showman is all sizzle and no steak
The movie The Greatest Showman might have gone over like a lead balloon with most critics and been almost completely shut out at the Oscars ... Continue Reading
Meditation Park is a feast for the soul
Meditation Park is a very quiet film, but like its long-suffering protagonist, Maria (played by legendary Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng), th... Continue Reading
The Disaster Artist is a great movie about a bad one
Hollywood has been obsessed with movies about movies since the silent era, and though there is always the concern that a navel gazing Tinsel... Continue Reading
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