Poor Ryan… I know that it’s, like, his job and all, but being part of the first crop of critics to review Avengers: Endgame could not have been fun. Forget nerds, even casual moviegoers are never this hypersensitive about spoilers. Ryan had to stretch “You refuse to let me tell you why I like it” […]
Like a school of salmon competing in the Tour de France, initial critical responses to Avengers: Endgame are quasi-impossible and rather useless. Pinky-sworn to avoid spoilers, our substantive discussion is limited to vague implications and general overviews. Is it good? It is! Does it have issues? A few, yeah. Is it ultimately a satisfying capstone […]
Writer/director Blitz Bazawule’s first feature-length film feels exactly like someone telling you about a dream they had. Only you’re actually interested in it, and the nonsensical parts are beautiful and not just annoying. The Burial of Kojo is filmmaking as visual poetry, set to a wickedly magical score also composed by Bazawule. Before the Netflix-ing […]
Hellboy feels like a 2-hour “previously on Supernatural” recap, somehow set to even worse music. Anyone who has ever begrudgingly loved a “freak of the week” genre TV show and wondered what it would be like with all the filler crap cut out now has an answer. A series of expository explanations frequently interrupted by […]
Mel Gibson finally portrays the old racist firebrand he’s been rehearsing for his entire life in Dragged Across Concrete. It’s the biggest cinematic self-own I’ve ever seen. Writer/director S. Craig Zahler insists time and time again that his films aren’t political. “My movies don’t have an ax to grind,” is the way he usually puts […]
Shazam! is an overeager dad asking “Aren’t we having fun, kids?!” the whole drive to an admittedly pretty decent waterpark. It is basically one Rick Moranis away from perfectly aping a 1990s-era mainstream blockbuster family comedy, so either shrink or blow up your expectations accordingly. Director David F. Sandberg and writer Henry Gayden swap abundant […]
Buoyed by the unstoppable force that is Jason Momoa’s exposed nipples, Aquaman took in more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Aquaman, a character lame enough to be an intentional punchline on Entourage, which is itself an unintentional punchline to a joke about “prestige TV for sentient fedoras.” Running down all the […]
Huzzah and congrats are verily deserved, and yay shall I giveth unto those deserving! A quintillion kudos to the Omaha Film Festival (OFF) for its continued prosperity and survival, having wrapped up another successful installment in mid-March. A bucket of right proper props must also go to Aksarben Cinema for graciously hosting the event, a […]
Usually, I don’t even read the glowing review blurbs that movie trailers toss in because they think normal people would ever listen to folks like me. Except, there was one in The Wind’s trailer that hit me like a freight train. It read something like, “The Wind is a mix between The Babadook and The […]
So is it going to be like this every time then? Whenever writer/director Jordan Peele announces a new film, do we have to just clear out space on the calendar for about a month afterward to unpack the twisted metaphors and chilling insights that speak acutely to our cruelest flaws as a country and as […]
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