Road to Perth (Peter, 2021)
When I was in graduate school (yea, many years ago), I once earned an “A” on a paper from a respected mentor who was hardly a pushover. When I tried… Continue reading "Road to Perth (Peter, 2021)"
When I was in graduate school (yea, many years ago), I once earned an “A” on a paper from a respected mentor who was hardly a pushover. When I tried… Continue reading "Road to Perth (Peter, 2021)"
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)"
You may think you’re cool, but you’ll never be “Timothée Chalamet walking in slow motion along a rocky coast under floating spaceships to a Hans Zimmer score” cool. Dune: Part… Continue reading "Dune (Villeneuve, 2021)"
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)"
I am apparently an outlier because I thought this was gloriously messy rather than just messy. It didn’t hurt that I saw it the same week as The Eyes of… Continue reading "Dear Evan Hansen (Chbosky, 2021)"
I spent most of my time watching The Eyes of Tammy Faye trying to convince myself that the film was better than I ultimately judged it to be. Why the… Continue reading "The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Showalter, 2021)"
The right side of my brain says that The Capote Tapes is the kind of biographical tease that is common in academia. The auteur finds (or has access to) new… Continue reading "The Capote Tapes (Burnough, 2019)"