Based on the true and seemingly inconsequential story of Michael Larson (played by Paul Walter Hauser), an unemployed ice cream truck driver who made a bit of a splash on […]
There are movies, and there are musicals. There are even movie musicals. But the musical movie is something else entirely. These are films where the narrative itself is music-based. Films […]
With its roots in Chicago theater, the story of Eric LaRue is set in an anonymous suburban community in the aftermath of a shocking crime committed by the high school-age […]
About six miles north of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is a satellite campus known as The Cloisters, a set of medieval stone buildings set at the top of […]
When I first sat down to watch Misericordia, I naively assumed that it would avoid the cliché hallmarks of French films: sex, death, existential angst. I was wrong, of course, […]
Between Borders, directed by Mark Freiburger, is inspired by the true story of the Petrosyan family as they seek refugee status in the United States following the fall of the […]
This is a repost of a review originally published in 2023. Actor Jonathan Majors is about to have a substantial year. In addition to beginning his reign of multiverse-jumping terror […]
A remake of the 2019 Argentinian thriller 4×4 (and now adapted by Michael Arlen Ross), Locked tells the very stripped-down story of down-on-his-luck petty criminal Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) trying to […]
Playing more like a greatest hits package of sci-fit/action/horror movies of years past, and less like the trippy, brain-bending story it thinks it is, Ash comes courtesy of director/composer/actor Flying […]
In the pantheon of Disney characters, the only one as iconic and enduring as the Mouse of the House himself is perhaps Snow White, the fabled parent-less princess and star […]
Opus is the story of a young writer named Ariel (Ayo Edebiri), who works at a music publication but is largely considered the most junior staffer at the magazine. She […]
Eephus is a film about an amateur baseball game played languidly over several hours at Soldiers Field, a treasured old baseball field in small town Massachusetts. The film is named for […]