Jun 30, 2023 Cultural Diet After Yang by Kogonada (2021) Given its premise — an interracial couple tries to repair the malfunctioning robotic child that the…
Jun 29, 2023 Review Roundup: James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Critics respond to the final adventure for the world’s most famous archaeologist.
Jun 27, 2023 Cultural Diet Sisu by Jalmari Helander (2022) You’d think watching Nazis get dispatched in gory, ignominious ways would be its own cinematic rewa…
Jun 24, 2023 Cultural Diet Heaven and Earth by Haruki Kadokawa (1990) I watched this on VHS almost 25 years ago, and something about it stuck with me over the years. So …
Jun 22, 2023 Review Roundup: Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City Critics react to Wes Anderson’s latest, in which an ensemble cast attend a desert astronomy convention.
Jun 17, 2023 Cultural Diet Dark City by Alex Proyas (1998) More than 20 years have passed since my last viewing of Dark City, but I was obsessed with it when …
Jun 17, 2023 Cultural Diet Extraction 2 by Sam Hargrave (2023) Most people probably know Chris Hemsworth as cinema’s most beloved “himbo” courtesy of the Thor mov…
Jun 13, 2023 Cultural Diet Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson (2023) This was actually my second viewing; my first was plagued by poor sound issues that made it difficu…
Jun 12, 2023 Cultural Diet Let Me Have My Son by Cristobal Krusen (2023) I confess: I expected Let Me Have My Son to be in the same vein as some inspirational “Lifetime Ori…
Jun 3, 2023 Cultural Diet Blade Runner by Ridley Scott (1982) Shortly after finishing Arrival, I started talking about Denis Villeneuve’s films with my oldest, w…
Jun 3, 2023 Cultural Diet Arrival by Denis Villeneuve (2016) When is an alien invasion movie not an alien invasion movie? When that movie is Arrival. Sure it fe…
Jun 2, 2023 Cultural Diet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman (2018) We watched this in preparation for Across the Spider-Verse. Into the Spider-Verse is perfect, and i…
Jun 1, 2023 Review Roundup: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Critics respond to the return of Miles Morales.
May 26, 2023 Cultural Diet Gunhed by Masato Harada (1989) As you might’ve guessed by now, I’m a bit of a sucker for cheesy Japanese sci-fi movies from the la…
May 25, 2023 Cultural Diet Crater by Kyle Patrick Alvarez (2023) My family watched this Disney+ original film on a whim and suffice to say, I was very pleasantly su…
May 21, 2023 Cultural Diet The Super Mario Bros. Movie by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, and Pierre Leduc (2023) This was a real “meh” movie for me. Some of the CGI visuals were impressive and the voice acting wa…
May 19, 2023 Cultural Diet Nobody by Ilya Naishuller (2021) Sure, Nobody is filled with over-the-top action sequences, including a long, violent standoff in a …
May 17, 2023 Cultural Diet The Osterman Weekend by Sam Peckinpah (1983) I went into this film anticipating a paranoid thriller along the same lines as The Parallax View or…
May 5, 2023 Cultural Diet Versus by Ryûhei Kitamura (2001) I loved Versus when I first saw it back in the early ’00s — its zombie/martial arts/gangster storyl…
May 4, 2023 Review Roundup: James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Critics respond to James Gunn’s final outing with Star-Lord, Rocket, and the rest of the Guardians.