The first Lego Movie was understandably overpraised for simply not being as terrible a corporate cash-in as it could have been. Unlike its predecessor, the Duplo double-dip that is The Lego Movie Part 2: The Second Part is borderline legitimately great. Instead of reductive Disney-barf themes like “don’t lose your imagination” and […]
If you’ve ever wondered “How do I watch experimental films?” the answer is “With your eyes.” If you would like more specific and helpful information, you can join the next Courses offering at Film Streams. The five-week seminar is a new addition to the Courses series, titled “Deep Dive.” I am told you do not […]
Partly because the power of the groundhog compels me and almost entirely because limited-release Oscar contenders often don’t get shown in Omaha until January of the following year, my year-in-reviews are always later than everyone else’s. It’s like my advice for attending parties: If you can’t be punctual, wait to show up until everyone else […]
A young man emotionally plummets into the chasm made by his separated parents. An old woman in the grips of dementia fights to recover the most basic facts about her daughter. A young woman struggles to fulfill the promise of a life interrupted by tragedy. Folks, these are the animated shorts… […]
In news that’s as exciting as it is absolutely mortifying for my mortality concerns, Aksarben Cinema is holding a 20th anniversary screening of The Matrix on Thursday, Jan 31 at 7:30. Also presented by Omaha Virtual Reality, Infusion Brewing and Legend Comics, for just $10 you can see a movie that redefined a genre, inspired […]
When Deep Impact and Armageddon competed, everyone won. Watching Frodo and mini-Helen-Hunt mournfully plan to repopulate the earth was equal to the artistry of seeing Steve Buscemi get “space dementia,” which is a real thing that happened in a real movie. Unlike double-dipping on asteroid apocalypses, watching both documentaries about the failed […]
As Logan Paul’s parents almost certainly thought on his 19th birthday, “We waited 19 years for this?” If you liked Unbreakable, a super-serious superhero movie made just before such things were weekly occurrences, whatever sequel you had written in your head was infinitely better than the one M. Night Shyamalan actually just […]
It’s 2019, and criticizing toxic masculinity is the “it” thing. I mean, hell, men’s razor companies are even cashing in… I can log onto social media right now and find any number of posts that make me feel bad about my penis in legitimately introspective ways by eloquently criticizing how society defines […]
In between John Wick movies and torturing his fans by pretending Bill & Ted 3 is coming soon (it’s been “coming soon” for 15 years), Keanu Reeves has made quite the little side-career out of starring in low-key thrillers that are usually released straight to Redbox or streaming. Not even “straight to […]
The suggestion that the oppressed have a burden to confront systemic injustice with love is some two scoops of raisins-in-the-sun bullshit. Instead, to understand the role that love can, should and must play in resistance, look no further than writer/director Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk. As […]
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