Six Minutes to Midnight is a damn good spy film and an OK boarding school movie. Its success lies primarily…
Women is Losers (March 21)
Women is Losers is more docudrama than drama–cheeky breaks in the fourth wall offer modern insights into the struggles of…
The Yellow Wallpaper (March 20)
There is something really off about The Yellow Wallpaper. It’s that feeling you have when you make a recipe you…
Death of a Ladies’ Man (March 20)
Today I learned that Wife doesn’t like “Hallucination movies.” She told this to me while I was watching the first…
Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game (March 20)
Events Transpiring is a quietly funny nostalgia tour of high school life in Calgary 1999. The film features comic heavyweight…
Go to Kill (March 20)
Go to Kill by Nam-won Park, my first movie of the Cinejoy 2021 Film Festival, does not clear the bar…
Moxie (March 6)
Netflix’s new high school movie, Moxie, broke the made-for-Netflix curse for me. Amy Poehler’s story about a group of girl’s…
Judas and the Black Messiah (Feb 28)
Judas and the Black Messiah was billed as one of the best movies of the year and it’s definitely a…
A Promising Young Woman (Jan 27)
I have written extensively about wigs here before and not at all about Carey Mulligan–my first run in with her…
One Night in Miami (Jan 20)
One Night in Miami, based on the play by Kemp Powers and directed by the great Regina King, did not…
