Category Archives: Movies
One Life, by James Hawes
I wasn’t going to review this but The Times review, once again, proved that their reviewers are hacks and unqualified to review a high school musical. My biggest complaint about this movie, which will not have a wide release or … Continue reading
Cabrini, by a bunch of conservative religious lunatics.
I wanted to see this, without having read the reviews or even seen any previews, because I was always a little curious about “Mother Cabrini,” or “Madre Cabrini,” as she’s referred to most of the time in this movie, and … Continue reading
High and Low: John Galliano
This is a short one and I’m not even going to look for a poster to go with it. It documents the fashion designer’s career rise at Givenchy and Dior, and then his nearly overnight collapse after he was filmed … Continue reading
May December, by Todd Haynes
Many people don’t know this, but it is not legal or possible for an underage child to give consent. They can say they wanted the relationship. They can say they wanted the sex. But legally, they do not have the … Continue reading
The Zone of Interest, by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin Amis
I’m not sure if they actually released a movie poster for this film, but this seems to be at least a poster for the movie when it played at Cannes. I’m not a Martin Amis fan so I have not … Continue reading
Saltburn, by Emerald Fennell
Another outsourced review of The Times by Wesley Morris gave this a terrible rating, and boring. It is anything but. As I wrote about when doing my own review of Promising Young Woman, the question the writer is asking (of … Continue reading
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
The reviews are splendid. Heart-stopping. Best film of the year. You won’t walk away the same person. Masterful. Stops you in your tracks. Well no, it doesn’t. What it does have is a very delicate sense of mystery. Sophie is … Continue reading
TÁR by Todd Field.
(Spoilers all the way through, including the end.) Many of the people who saw this in the theatre with me groaned at the end, and several came up to me and asked me if I understood what “that was all … Continue reading