A seventy-plus minute conversation with Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn about corporate media bias and political propaganda can’t help but generate some interest for anyone who knows the first thing… Continue reading "The Bad Patriots (Fraga, 2024)"
When reviewing a new film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the only pertinent question is whether the frame of reference for judgment will be their other films or something broader.… Continue reading "Young Mothers (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2026)"
When I look at my favorite film experiences of 2025, the movies and performances that resonated with me the most powerfully, the common thread I see running through all of… Continue reading "2025 Top Ten"
Secret Mall Apartment is one of those quirky human-interest stories that either delight you with their premise or leave you befuddled, wondering what all the fuss is about. I was… Continue reading "Secret Mall Apartment (Workman, 2025)"
It has been a dozen years since Now You See Me, which I remember as being a poor man’s Mission: Impossible, relying on cameras to make illusions look more plausible… Continue reading "Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (Fleischer, 2025)"
When I first saw the trailer for The Carpenter’s Son, the new film loosely based on Apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, I confess my heart sank a little. I am old… Continue reading "The Carpenter’s Son: A New Testament Scholar Discusses Controversial Depiction of Jesus"
“Why don’t you just fake the whole show?” Buried in the rubble of the mess that is Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s dystopian novel, protagonist Ben Richards (Glen Powell)… Continue reading "The Running Man (Wright, 2025)"
I don’t know if it is accurate to call director François Ozon a critic’s darling, but I note that his last fifteen films, over a span of eighteen years, are… Continue reading "When Fall is Coming (Ozon, 2025)"
The first twenty minutes of Stitch Head is just sublime. In terms of art design, story set-up, and characterization, it is on par with the better Pixar films. The titular… Continue reading "Stitch Head (Hudson, 2025)"
I was mostly ambivalent about The Mission, the 2023 documentary chronicling the attempts of John Chau to evangelize the occupants of North Sentinel Island despite access to the island being… Continue reading "Last Days (Lin, 2025)"
