The overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling would be a “9/11 attack” on the country’s social fabric, according to a recent Washington Post piece arguing that such a move on the part of the “destructive”...
Watched on Sunday May 15, 2022.
Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange,...
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) stated that inflation is the most important issue in most people’s lives, not Roe v. Wade. Co-host...
Tommy Ackerman is a middle-aged father who loves his wife, his kids and his job. Especially his job. As his wife sees it, he's either at work, on the golf course, or on his cell phone. But she has a plan...
The evil kid horror genre feels as exhausted as a Final Girl stumbling over a branch.
Movies like “The Grudge,” “Eli,” “The Ring,” “Goodnight Mommy” and...
The 1986 smash “Top Gun” was both a movie and a pop cultural moment.
The latter mattered more, given the tenor of the times. President Ronald Reagan lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW D.C.,...
The whole movie is something of a marvel. But the tightness and near wordlessness of the final climactic one-two punch is textbook dramatic storytelling efficiency. I’m tempted to call it pure cinema....
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Wallace Worsley, USA, 1923, 8 [was 7] R)
It’s easy not to remember how, despite Lon Chaney’s star billing (and iconic performance) that Quasimodo is largely absent...
THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR (Dziga-Vertov, USSR, 1921, 4)
Ken Burns shooda made this in my opinion. Though there’s obviously historical value in the footage, it’s only even really a movie in the...
'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' is a tribute to the Marvel character's creator, Steve Diko
A SISTER OF SIX (Regnar Hylten-Cavallius, Sweden, 1926, 4)
Could I get a flow chart please? Imagine SOME LIKE IT HOT if half of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators had back stories involving further...
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is incredible, the kind of film that will definitely inspire an affectionate cult following down the road, but don’t wait for that to transpire.
See this now,...
STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (Charles Reisner / Buster Keaton, USA, 1928, 10 (was 9), R)
Things I noticed for the first time on what was my third viewing just in a theater of this well-canonized masterpiece,...
Soul-challenged and wit-deprived, the new Marvel entry Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness nevertheless taps into some contemporary obsessions.
LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 128
Ever feel alone? Well, have no fear. According to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’re not. In fact, there’s another you out there, somewhere. Probably...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a godsend for film credits.
Audiences typically head for the exits when the end credits roll, but they stay put during MCU blockbusters. They know they’ll...
We know what a Sam Raimi superhero movie looks like.…
Jacques Tourneur’s “Cat People” (1942) is one of those black and white horror movie discoveries that only added to my lifelong movie obsession.
Here is an unabashed B-movie, one of many from Hungarian...
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