American Fiction
This comedy is based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure but renamed American Fiction to sound more like an Oscar movie (and less like an Arnie movie). The story follows Thelonious […]
Tag Archives: 2020s
The Holdovers
I watched Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers on the same day as Godzilla Minus One, which seems an incongruous double-bill until you remember Payne co-wrote Jurassic Park III. It also shares […]
Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla Minus One is the 37th movie in the kaiju franchise, which is considered one of the longest film series of all time by sexists intent on overlooking Barbie, the […]
Watcher
This 2022 psychological thriller follows Julia (Maika Monroe), an American who moves to Bucharest and becomes convinced she is being watched through her window; a heightened risk in Romania since […]
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell goes from Promising Young Women to dismantling young men in this dark comedy set in a debauched mansion. Let’s call it Downtown Abbey. Saltburn follows Oliver Quick (Barry […]
Night Swim
The big brains at Blumhouse take another dive into their big bin marked “Things That ARe Scarey” (red doors, black phones, nuns etc.) and dredge up this wet attempt at making […]
Poor Things
Pinocchio meets Frankenhooker in the sci-fi they should have called Pinocchi-ho. Set in Victorian London, Poor Things concerns a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who puts a child’s brain in an […]
Deep Fear
Green Room meets The Descent in this French horror flick about 3 friends (Sofia Lesaffre, Victor Meutelet and Kassim Meesters) celebrating their last day in Paris by venturing into the […]
One Life
One Life is the story of Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton (Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn), who helped rescue hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia then didn’t bother telling anyone […]
Maestro
Bradley Cooper returns to music-based relationship drama in this biopic of American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Let’s call it A Tar is Born. As both actor and director, Cooper delivers a […]
Screen Goblin 