Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is so ubiquitous in the American classroom that it is a bit surprising that there is not yet a definitive film adaptation. Not that… Continue reading "The Yellow Wallpaper (Pontuti, 2020)"
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am a documentary fan. Two of my absolute favorites in the genre (Shut Up and Sing!; The Queen of Versailles) are ones… Continue reading "Belle Vie (Mizelle, 2022)"
I suspect that viewers will enjoy or esteem The Unmaking of a College to the extent their politics and ideology are compatible with those of the students who organized “the… Continue reading "The Unmaking of a College (Goldstein, 2022)"
I won’t speculate about how Amazon Studios’s Reacher will play for those unfamiliar with Lee Child’s books or fans of the Tom Cruise films based on the same character. I… Continue reading "Reacher"
Can a film be simultaneously essential and disappointing? I ask because I feel like we do need to talk about Cosby — or at least I do. But while the… Continue reading "We Need to Talk About Cosby (Bell, 2022)"
The 355 is a new movie only in the sense that it has not been previously released in the United States and is not a remake. Beyond that, it is… Continue reading "The 355 (Kinberg, 2022)"
Paper & Glue is an immensely hopeful film, arriving at a time when I have been feeling particularly hopeless about the state of the world we live in. Political problems,… Continue reading "Paper & Glue (JR, 2021)"
About the time my region went to sheltering in place to flatten the 2020 Covid-19 curve, I decided to try to revisit as many MCU films as I could in… Continue reading "Eternals (Zhao, 2021)"
The Last Duel is a big, new, studio film that is neither franchise, reboot, nor sequel. It comes at a point where everyone, even some of my friends who are… Continue reading "The Last Duel (Scott, 2021)"
Adventures of a Mathematician begins with one Jewish scientist telling another an extended joke where a man questions a rabbi about whether sex is “work” or “pleasure.” The joke turns… Continue reading "Adventures of a Mathematician (Klein, 2021)"
