Speak No Evil
A Danish couple (Morten Burian and Sidsel Siem Koch) meets a Dutch couple (Fedja van Huêt and Karina Smulders) on holiday in Italy. When their new friends invite them to stay […]
Tag Archives: Dan Meier
An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Matt Smith returns to playing a doctor in this updated version of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, now running at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre – not to be confused with […]
Turning Red
A Chinese-Canadian girl (Rosalie Chiang) turns into a red panda in this 2022 Pixar flick they should have called Mulan Rouge. I had all but given up on Pixar after the […]
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 […]
Final Destination 2
A 25-year-old college student (A. J. Cook) witnesses a traffic collision that turns out to be a premonition (and not just the cast’s careers going up in in flames). After […]
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 […]
An American Werewolf in London
American pals (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) become pedigree chums after getting lost on the Yorkshire Moors under a full moon. John Landis’ horror/comedy crossbreed is best remembered for its […]
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