Blogs about Movies

House & gardenJonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest begins with a band of solid black held for an interminable time-- Mica Levi's sound collages growling from the big screen-- then cut to a German family …

Channel Calendars This May, we’re blasting back to the turbulent midcentury moment when old Hollywood gave way to something new, with collections spotlighting Columbia Pictures’ emergence as one of the industry’s top studios, the startling …

The great Quentin Tarantino once again became the talk of the internet when it was announced that his upcoming movie, The Movie Critic, was cancelled and that he will instead find another project to be …

ArcadianNicolas Cage headlines Arcadian but the character he plays spends much of the movie off-screen and unconscious. Cage plays Paul, a father who flees an unspecified apocalypse with his two infant sons. The movie quickly …

Scoop (2023) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated TV-14, for dramatic intensity, sexual candor and occasional profanityAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick BangMovies about reporters have been a cinema staple ever since talkies emerged. Early …

The Public Domain Mouse appears on a poster for Primus.

"... while still remembered as a Bauhaus designer, painter and teacher, Oskar Schlemmer’s contribution to dance gets little more than a passing reference. With one exception. His designs for his Triadic Ballet, which premiered at …

Puppy Love is a loving documentary about a healthy litter of Labrador puppies that suddenly become paralyzed. Their breeder, Cindy, is advised to put them down, but she resolves to make them better, taking back …

Selling a house can be a tumultuous affair, but how far would you go to ensure a great offer gets over the line? In The Trouble with Jessica we’re introduced to middle class couple Sarah …

Director: Hiroshi AkabaneWriter: Ryuho OkawaYear: 2023 I can’t speak for anyone else, but I think about what, or how, I could have done things differently if my life was restarted. Sometimes I imagine I go …

This is something of a “doing my homework” review because I feel like I should

Selective attention is a concept that all filmmakers need to understand. When an audience is focusing on something, the aspects of the frame that are not directly related to the action, even if they're overwhelmingly …

One of the reasons I stopped posting during Covid was I got busy right in the middle of a two-part review of The King (2019, dir. David Michôd), a movie I rather disliked. I did …

If I were sculpting a Mount Rushmore of neo-noir sleuths, the first would be Elliot Gould's Marlowe in "The Long Goodbye". The second would be Jeff Lebowski. Obviously, I love my "detectives" to be reluctantly …

It’s a tricky thing to mess around with an already established franchise, particularly in the realm of prequels. Like the perils of time travel, one minor blunder can seemingly tarnish or muddy the carefully placed …

I'm pleased to share that I have an article appearing in the latest issue of The Dark Pages!My 2019 review of the Flicker Alley Blu-ray release of TRAPPED (1949) has been adapted for the March/April …

One of the perils of growing older is losing friends and colleagues. This past week or so has been tough, while the three people who died couldn’t have played more different roles in my life. …

Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, with Jonathan Victory and Billie Jean Doheny. At time of recording, the film was ranked 225th on the list of best movies of …

The main giant serpent attacks security guards! Starring Zheng Long, Peng Bo, Shi Xuanru, Pang Yong and Cao Tiankai. Written by Xie Wenjun, directed by Guo Yulong and Xie Wenjun. Produced by Li Shi. Cool …

Since I’ve been working chronologically on this list, we’ve come to an interesting point – movies that were released just before my birth and which all the grownups talked about when I was young, and …