“Did everyone who got eaten deserve it?” my wife asked as I walked through the door, returning from Jurassic World: Rebirth. After over three decades of marriage, I probably should… Continue reading "Jurassic World: Rebirth (Edwards, 2025)"
Seasoned is a proposed television show based on the popularity of Mandy Patinkin’s and Kathryn Grody’s home videos on social media. The pilot episode, “Hangry,” aired in the Episodic program… Continue reading "Seasoned — Pilot"
As a longtime scholar of Jane Austen’s fiction and a self-professed snob about films derived from it, the biggest compliment I can pay to Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is… Continue reading "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Piani, 2025)"
Nearly everything I can think to say about Final Reckoning sounds like (and is) a criticism, so I guess I should be honest that I thought the film superbly executed… Continue reading "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning"
If one grows up watching a lot of television or going to the movies, one develops positive associations with any number of actors or actresses who participated in beloved projects.… Continue reading "Relative Control (Yachin, 2025)"
Good Bad Things is a winsome indie romance from Music Box about a guy with Muscular Dystrophy who finds the woman of his dreams (of all our dreams really) on… Continue reading "Good Bad Things (Stanger, 2024)"
Kim A. Snyder’s Newtown was one of my favorite films of 2016, so I walked into The Librarians with understandably high expectations. As with Snyder’s gut-punching portrait of Sandy Hook… Continue reading "The Librarians (Snyder, 2025)"
Blue Road is a sad film, at times angry but never bitter. The title originates from a line in one of O’Brien’s early books that her husband insisted was wrong… Continue reading "Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story (O’Shea, 2024)"
I spent the first ninety minutes of WIlliam Tell muttering, “Okay, this is better than I expected.” I spent the last forty minutes ready for it to be over. The… Continue reading "William Tell (Hamm, 2024)"
King of Kings is neither the best nor the worst animated Jesus film I have seen. Whether that is an endorsement depends largely on the target audience. After the unexpected… Continue reading "King of Kings (Seong-ho Jang, 2025)"
