Apr 14, 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniels (Review) Michelle Yeoh shines in this trippy sci-fi epic about a woman struggling to pay her taxes, run her family’s laundromat, and save the multiverse.
Apr 12, 2022 Cultural Diet Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniels (2022) Funny, trippy, wildly creative, and over-the-top in every way possible, but also surprisingly emoti…
Apr 11, 2022 Cultural Diet All the Old Knives by Janus Metz (2022) I enjoy the idea of this kind of spy thriller, which emphasizes mood and atmosphere over action. Bu…
Mar 31, 2022 Cultural Diet Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist by Pascal-Alex Vincent (2021) Not sure if this gave me a lot of new insight into Kon’s films, but it was neat to see how respecte…
Mar 26, 2022 Drive by Steve Wang (Review) Direct-to-video martial arts action comedies from the mid-to-late ’90s don’t get much better than this.
Mar 25, 2022 Cultural Diet Drive by Steve Wang (1997) Direct-to-video martial arts action comedies from the mid-to-late ’90s don’t get much better than t…
Mar 14, 2022 Cultural Diet Encanto by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith (2021) And yes, I’ve had “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” going through my head ever since.
Mar 12, 2022 Cultural Diet The Adam Project by Shawn Levy (2022) Is there such a thing as a too-sarcastic Ryan Reynolds? This might be it. I had high hopes going in…
Mar 11, 2022 Review Roundup: Shawn Levy’s The Adam Project Ryan Reynolds reteams with director Shawn Levy for this time-traveling sci-fi adventure from Netflix.
Mar 10, 2022 Review Roundup: Domee Shi’s Turning Red Pixar’s coming-of-age story about a teen girl who turns into a red panda arrives on Disney+ on March 11.
Mar 4, 2022 Cultural Diet Police Story 2 by Jackie Chan (1988) It pains me to rate a Jackie Chan movie so low, but compared to the first Police Story, this one fe…
Feb 28, 2022 Cultural Diet Bigbug by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2022) This cautionary tale about technology run amok is joyless and heavy-handed, two words I never thoug…
Feb 28, 2022 Review Roundup: Matt Reeves’ The Batman Critics react to the Caped Crusader’s latest silver screen incarnation.
Feb 19, 2022 Cultural Diet The Hunt for Red October by John McTiernan (1990) A top-notch Cold War thriller in every possible way. One of those movies that I could watch almost …
Feb 18, 2022 Cultural Diet Wonder by Stephen Chbosky (2017) I haven’t read the original book but I enjoyed the movie, which felt like it mostly earned its big,…
Feb 12, 2022 Cultural Diet Blame! by Hiroyuki Seshita (2017) I really want to rate this higher, but it just doesn’t embrace the weirdness of Tsutomu Nihei’s man…