Despite all the effort, dollars spent, words written and time wasted there have only been two good Hannibal Lecter movies.  This and Silence of the Lambs.  Director Jonathan Demme brought…

It’s the last day of middle school and she broke up with you again.  You don’t know why because you don’t understand these things at all. Summer is almost here though and it promises an endles…

The best movies of 2025 … according to some guy.

Marty was supreme in several things.

And entirely too long discussion of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

Jay Kelly has some great acting and two of the best running jokes you will see this year.

Review of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere is not a movie for everyone. I read the book and it is a slog.  And before I even watched this thing I had my argument all worked out. That it is Michael Ma…

Gather round children and I shall tell you of the before times.  For you see we also did not do our homework. But with no Chat GPT to guide us we were forced to cheat in other ways. Some purch…

I think this is one of the great films of the year.  Writer/Director Tony Tost takes a stab at writing about all the things he clearly loves, country and western music, crime thrillers, social…

Clearly, The New York tourism board should just fund every Spike Lee movie.  Lee’s Big Apple is a beautiful, impossible, fantasy. The city is his greatest love and I’m sorry to anyone else in …

I was a young teenager when Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, showed up on comic book shelves. I was a voracious reader but here was something completely unlike anything I had ever encountered.  J…

If they had hired a real actor to play Ian Holm’s character this would have been a solid Alien entry.  Doing it with CGI brings nothing to the table. If someone was making Godfather 2 today th…

I think there are three ways to look at this film. The first is that it is a masterpiece. Certainly that’s what the majority of critics and other creatives think about it. the New York Times ranked…

The thing about Jesse Armstrong is that he is very interested in the worst people in the world.  The problem with that is that in order to watch his movie, Mountainhead, or his show Succession…

James Gunn’s vision of Superman is a guy who is constantly knocked around but keeps getting back up. It never slows down and never quite hits the points it wants to make because it won’t slow down …

James Gunn’s vision of Superman is a guy who is constantly knocked around but keeps getting back up. It never slows down and never quite hits the points it wants to make because it won’t slow down …

Brad Pitt plays a former F1 driver whose entire life is a washout and now lives in a van and goes from town to town trying to win various types of races.  It’s not about the money, he says whe…

I’m sure in my excitement I will just spoil this so pre-spoilers just know that is one of the best movies of the year.  It’s certainly a horror movie but it also transcends the genre (or does …

This is a movie that has the goods, and knows it has the goods almost from the start.  Confidence means an awful lot in a horror flick.  Not so much in the actual start of the film which …

Stephen King can do anything.  This is King in mostly human form, concerned with real people — how we live our lives, how we end our lives and the state of the world.  Not horror, althoug…

A woman once told me her highest philosophy.  “My mama always said it was as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is with a poor man.”  She did, I think, marry a rich man who was th…

If you want a real deal Paul Schrader outing, I can recommend Light Sleeper. The final part of an unplanned trilogy that began with Taxi Driver, continued with American Gigolo and ends with this Wi…

I reviewed the first movie in this series, Cast a Deadly Spell, yesterday. Dennis Hopper (who replaces Fred Ward as the lead) said this was the weirdest movie he ever made. And this was after …