Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Krampus meets The Thing in this 2010 Finnish holiday horror that I would have called Santa’s Grotty. From the director of Big Game, Rare Exports starts in much the same way: a […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
Long Strange Trip
Long Strange Trip is a Grateful Dead documentary produced by the band, their families, Martin Scorsese and David Lemieux; the archivist best known for getting distracted by nature. At 4 hours this […]
The Possession of Hannah Grace
The Possession of Hannah Grace is one of those titles, like The Exorcism of Emily Rose, that makes you think: don’t give your daughter 2 first names unless you want her getting […]
The Old Man & the Gun
A Texas cop (Casey Affleck) is on the trail of an elderly bank robber (Robert Redford) in David Lowery’s (A Ghost Story) new film, AKA Geriatch Me If You Can. […]
Veronica Mars
“A teenaged private eye. Trust me, I know how dumb that sounds.” So begins the Veronica Mars movie, immediately establishing both the premise and tone of Rob Thomas’ (not the […]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gives us our fourth cinematic incarnation of Spider-Man. And fifth. And sixth… Like Spider-Man: Homecoming, this animated feature doesn’t get bogged down in romance. This time it looks […]
Autumn Leaves
Autumn Leaves is a mixture of several other Joan Crawford films: Milly is a typist (Grand Hotel) who marries a man called Burt (Mildred Pierce) in this Robert Aldrich-directed (What Ever […]
