Three cheer for the interobang!?! Oh wait what? Yeah, Is That Black Enough for You?!? is a pretty good documentary about the rise of black film (blaxploitation, even) from 1968-1978… and black actors, directors, and writers throughout cinema history in … Continue reading
Capturing the Killer Nurse is the documentary version of the true life story of a nurse who killed his patience for almost twenty years. Just a week or two earlier, the Good Nurse starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne impressed … Continue reading
The first half of this somewhat generic holiday romantic comedy is nigh on insufferable. Complete with pratfalls and over-the-top comedy acting, I was gritting my teeth and wallowing in my anti-Christmas rage. But once it settles into its formulaic and … Continue reading
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a very busy film without, thankfully, being a very messy film. They manage to stuff the movie to the (ahem) gills with character and plot without the whole merry-go-round flinging everyone off in a fit … Continue reading
Next Exit is a genre-bender… a romance, a romantic comedy, a comedy sci-fi road trip that never really coalesces into something great. But I think they put in the effort to focus on the emotional life of two characters and … Continue reading
The Good Nurse is a cold, calculated, and believable true story of a killer nurse as played by Eddie Redmayne. Jessica Chastain plays the titular good nurse who at first befriends him and then turns on him when she begins … Continue reading
I had a fair amount of confidence this would be a pretty bad movie… but the premise had me curious enough to pull the trigger. Could they make a movie about skydiving into a supernatural horror movie? What would that … Continue reading
Banshees of Inisherin is a sneaky little movie that sidled up on me and said BOO at just the right moment to open up my appreciation. I was more-or-less on the movie’s side in a gentle, despondent, isolated kind of … Continue reading
Causeway proves my whole theory: Jennifer Lawrence is an excellent actor. Of course, we all kind of know it, especially if you saw her earlier films like Winter’s Bone. But she’s pulls off great work in her bigger pictures like … Continue reading
I started watching this one fully expecting to hate it given the aggressively downward trajectory of the franchise. And at first I was as sneeringly dismissive as I was with the terrible third flick. But then… you know… this movie … Continue reading