Regency-era romance fans, we are being fed well. Shondaland’s Bridgerton series has captured the hearts and titillated the senses of viewers everywhere, which has had the benefit of getting similar projects greenlit. We have an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion coming to Netflix on July 15, and — at long last — we are finally …
Movie Review
Since Beavis and Butt-Head premiered on MTV back in the 1990s, we’ve gotten all kinds of irreverent animated shows over all kinds of networks. Some are better than others, but all of them owe a debt in some way to these two Highland Texas teenagers just wanting to score, and who both scale the world …
I saw Elvis Presley live in concert. It was March 1974, at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. I was four years old. I don’t remember it very well, but I do have flashes and images in my mind. I remember seeing my parents losing their minds, even though the stage, to my tiny four-year-old …
In director Jim Archer’s new film Brian and Charles, Brian is a lonely middle-aged man living in rural England. Despite his dreary surroundings, he keeps himself busy as an inventor. While Brian has a fantastic imagination, his inventions are less than stellar. He invented a bag with pinecones glued to it, a cuckoo clock on …
The concept for Lightyear is so simple; it’s no wonder Disney-Pixar had difficulty explaining it to the masses: this is the favorite movie of Andy, the little boy from the first three Toy Story films. So it stands to reason that he would go nuts over a Buzz Lightyear doll – excuse me, action figure. …
Jurassic World Dominion is the perfect Jurassic Park sequel in that it does what all of the films in the series have: tease interesting science fiction concepts with world-changing implications it has no interest in beyond setting up for its next inventive set piece. Bombastic, long but frequently thrilling, Jurassic World Dominion succeeds at what …
Several years after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs have spread throughout the world. Clashes between mankind, modern wildlife, and prehistoric beasts have escalated. Black markets dealing in dinosaurs begin to thrive. Governments and environmental groups do their best to intervene and relocate the beasts to sanctuaries, but it is a difficult task. …
Crimes of the Future marks David Cronenberg‘s return to the horror genre that established him, but if you look closely at the films he’s made over the last twenty years, you could argue that he never really left. Films like A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, on paper, can read more like thrillers, but …
I’m a fan of Bob’s Burgers. It took a while for it to hit me, but when it did, I dived in with a cannonball. It’s the music that did it – there are so many songs in the show that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. Creator Loren Bouchard seems to live …
Bombastic, over the top, and unapologetically fun, Top Gun: Maverick is the Platonic ideal of an entertaining studio film, a standard bearer for what those words mean and how they can be achieved. Of course, what they mean is different for different people. Slick, lacking rough edges or idiosyncrasy with dialogue forever in search of …