Knock at the Cabin (2023) is a quintessential M. Night Shyamalan movie but with a biblical twist. It has a dramatic plot, an A-list anchor, and (SPOILER ALERT) a gratuitous… Continue reading "Knock at the Cabin (Shyamalan, 2023)"
The Menu (2022) is a delicious satire about gastriques, desserts, and pretense. Ken wrote a review for another movie about food last week, Kitchen Brigade, and it inspired me to… Continue reading "The Menu (Mylod, 2022)"
Episode 8 of Paris Police 1900 provides viewers that survived the tumult of season 1 with some interesting resolutions to many of the show’s enduring conflicts. The episode also ties… Continue reading "Paris Police 1900 (S1, E8)"
This Thanksgiving weekend is going to start one of the best holiday movie seasons I can remember in a long time. Devotion, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Movie, and All… Continue reading "The Fabelmans (Spielberg, 2022)"
The first act of Episode 106 of Paris Police 1900 is dark. Like really dark, both figurately and literally. Dark like the producers spent their entire lighting budget on the… Continue reading "Paris Police 1900, S1: E6"
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a valiant addition to the Black Panther legacy and the Marvel Universe. It brings back many of the things that audiences loved about Black Panther… Continue reading "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Coogler, 2022)"
The documentary, the directorial debut of Kirk E. Kelleykahn, might sound from the title as though it is exclusively focused on a crusade to get Juanita Moore a star on… Continue reading "A Star without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story (Kelleykahn, 2022)"
Rian Johnson, the film’s writer and director, has been steadily proving himself to be one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood. His first offering, Brick (2005) was an overwhelming financial… Continue reading "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Johnson, 2022)"
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed is a powerful documentary about marginalized people and the harm that social marginalization causes. I have fought in and survived two wars, and I… Continue reading "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Poitras, 2022)"
Devotion is an engaging movie that gives viewers a glimpse into the sensational evolution of American aviation through the eyes of an unlikely hero. The film is an adaptation of… Continue reading "Devotion (Dillard, 2022)"
