“You don’t look like the type who’d be traveling with an elephant,” says a sympathetic stranger in the opening scene of Pop Aye (not to be confused wi…
Movie Review: Baby Driver
There is a contagious energy that permeates from the nonstop engine that is Baby Driver. After the first minute, it goes from zero to one hundred as i…
Movie Review: The Bad Batch
The Bad Batch opens with a lingering shot of a sign that says, “Beyond this fence is no longer the territory of Texas. That hereafter no person within…
Movie Review: Moscow Never Sleeps
Johnny O’Reilly’s Moscow Never Sleeps aspires to more than just being an ensemble drama. It seeks to encapsulate the very spirit of that great Russian…
Movie Review: The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani is speedily becoming one of the funniest comedians in Hollywood. He does great work in both Silicon Valley and his standup specials, w…
Movie Review: The Beguiled
When Clint Eastwood starred in the 1971 Don Siegel drama The Beguiled it was a means of changing up his persona, showing that the action hero could pl…
Movie Review: The Journey Ditches Ideology in Favor of Sentimentality
The Journey isn’t a “bad” film. Neither is it particularly good. The film tells the kinda-sorta true story of avowed-political-enemies-t…