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The Big Sick (2017, Dir. Michael Showalter): “Love isn’t easy. That’s why they call it love,” says Ray Romano in the new romantic comedy The Big Sick, and the line…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, Dir. Jon Watts): The Marvel movie universe has been burdened by franchise-building, character cross-overs, and “more is more” bloat for so long that the offhanded trifle that is Spider-Man:…
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Wonder Woman (2017, Dir. Patty Jenkins): The original Wonder Woman comics were very much of their time. It can be read as coincidence, or fate, that her first appearance came…
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Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, Dir. David Lynch), Episodes 1-4: It still seems faintly unreal that over a quarter century since Twin Peaks streaked across television skies like a comet,…
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Back in the ’80s, two wise old rock stars said, “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.” Not only did the first Guardians of the Galaxy flirt with stupidity…
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Logan (2017, Dir. James Mangold): Seventeen years and nine films — that’s how long Hugh Jackman has owned the role of Logan (aka The Wolverine), gruffest and most feral of…
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Kong: Skull Island (2017, Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts): “Monsters exist.” So says obsessed millionaire Bill Randa (John Goodman) halfway through Kong: Skull Island, and is there really anything more that needs to…
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Capsule reviews of this year’s Academy award nominees in live-action short films: Sing (Hungary, Dir. Kristof Deák): A beatific children’s choir opens “Sing” with the kind of positive message that’s the…
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La La Land (2016, Dir. Damien Chazelle): “There’s something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don’t come true – that to me is what’s…
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Once a Thief (1965, Dir. Ralph Nelson): The opening of Once a Thief is a literal hoot and a holler that catapults us back to San Francisco of the mid-sixties. Within…
