Vivarium (March 29)

If I hadn’t been aware that Vivarium was going to have a Cuckoo story, the literal cuckoo pushing baby birds…

Harpoon (March 27)

Harpoon is a slippery eel of a movie, actually more of an idea of a movie, a wisp of a…

The Platform (March 25)

It’s wild to me that there is such a specific subgenre of allegorical social horror films about eating that take…

The Hunt (March 22)

It’s hard to fairly review The Hunt by a single set of criteria, because the movie itself is a little…

Swallow (March 21)

It would be easy to call Swallow just one more story about a white woman whose problems would be solved…

Thunderbird (March 8)

Thunderbird teeters on the precipice of well-intentioned bigotry. It’s not entirely satisfied with being a mystery, so it makes a…

Emma (March 8)

“I like all their stupid little hats,” Wife told me after we left when I asked her what she thought…

Survival Skills (March 8)

A couple weeks ago, I went to the 35th anniversary of Peewee’s Big Adventure featuring a talkback with Paul Reubens.…

Onward (March 7)

“Onward was sad all the way through. At no point does it cease being sad. At points, it’s funny, but…