Dashing newlyweds Marion Taylor (Emma Corrin, they/them) and Tom Burgess (Harry Styles, he/him) are two dapper, young Brits in 1950s Brighton. The two have their whole lives ahead of them in a picture-perfect marriage.  But this peace cannot last. The couple befriends one Patrick Hazlewood (David Dawson, he/him) who opens Tom’s eyes to his long-buried […]

I haven’t decided yet if Bones and All is best enjoyed over a glass of wine, or over a can of Mountain Dew and stale popcorn. Might I suggest some fava beans and a nice Chianti?  A bit of cannibal humor to get us started… *fhfhfhfhfhfhfhfh*  Eighteen-year-old Maren Yearly (Taylor Russell, she/her) has inherited an […]

I feel like I’m being pranked.  I feel like, any minute now, somebody’s going to jump out, surprise me, and say, “Gotcha! Now, here’s the real Halloween Ends.”  And I’d say, “Oh, thank Christ!” before sobbing with relief. But, alas, this is not a joke. This is not a drill. This is not a dream. […]

The thirteenth installment in the reliably unreliable DC Extended Universe, Black Adam features moments of imagination and high-energy thrills, but fails to capture a needed sense of urgency and astonishment to justify its gigantic ego.  Not that I, or any film critic, would know anything about having a gigantic ego.  Almost five thousand years ago, […]

Olivia Wilde’s suburban thriller Don’t Worry Darling tells a tense tale of dark secrets and deceit behind the veil of a shiny utopia. The film takes obvious inspiration from gaslighting narratives like The Truman Show and Rosemary’s Baby, but misunderstands some of the most fundamental components of those movies’ success. But along the way, there’s […]

Disney lovers far and wide have been talking about the soon-to-be live action remake of the beloved movie Pinocchio (1940) and there have been many speculations regarding what people should expect once it became available to viewers. Once it hit the Disney+ streaming service on September 8th, I decided to watch and give you the […]

So much is going on in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, yet so little actually happens. This is the third installment of JK Rowling’s prequel series to Harry Potter, and Rowling once again flaunts her talent for making the story appear as if so much is happening by introducing you to so many characters, […]

I’ll admit, I wasn’t a fan of the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie from pre-pandemic 2020, which I didn’t think was a hot take at the time, but oh was I wrong! As video game movies go, the film adaptation of beloved Sega character Sonic was weirdly accepted, some even dubbing it the best video […]

Throughout Batman’s onscreen history, we’ve seemingly explored every angle the character has.  From the goofy surrealism of Adam West-era Batman, to Gothic camp of Tim Burton’s Batman,  and then the maximalist circus of Joel Schumacher’s Batman, ending with the gritty realism of Christopher Nolan’s Batman, the film history of the Dark Knight is full of […]