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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Ailey has a tendency to trip on its own feet

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  Alvin Ailey was one of the great dancers and choreographers of the 20th-century. He took the artform of dance and used it to convey experi...

In Laman's Terms: Predicting the Oscar chances of Netflix's 2021 award season slate

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In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles on about certain topics or ideas that have been on his mind la...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Old is always entertaining, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally

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  Guy (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Prisca Cappa (Vicky Krieps) are so excited about this tropical vacation. As Old begins, the two set off with ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

An attempt to rejigger the G.I. Joe series comes up disappointingly short with Snake Eyes

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Almost a decade after the last G.I. Joe movie, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is here to try and reboot the franchise in a new direction. The...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Micro-Reviews of Recent Watches Strikes Again!

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I simply don't have the time anymore to deliver regular 1000-ish word reviews for every movie I see like I did as late as a year ago. Bu...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Stillwater has ambition to spare but doesn't quite realize its potential

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It's always nice to see ambition in a movie but it's also nice to see that ambition executed well. Tom McCarthy's Stillwater is ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Pig goes ham on being a meditation on coping with grief

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Grief doesn't hit you all at once. It's like a ripple constantly reverberating outwards. This is especially true when it comes to gr...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

If you wanna slam, look elsewhere than the boring Space Jam: A New Legacy

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  My youngest brother heads off to college in Oklahoma in just a few weeks. It's a development I truly can't wrap my brain around. R...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Roadrunner: The Anthony Bourdain Story is a solid documentary that gets tripped up by its own controversial elements

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  At the top of Roadrunner: The Anthony Bourdain Story , the film's interview subjects begin grappling with a question that's at the...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

In Laman's Terms: Five Biggest Takeaways from Black Widow's Box Office

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In Laman's Terms is a weekly editorial column where Douglas Laman rambles on about certain topics or ideas that have been on his mind la...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Visitor exemplifies the best qualities of director Tom McCarthy and lead actor Richard Jenkins

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Tom McCarthy has always had an empathetic streak in his works. It's an ingredient that proved essential when he was one of the screenwri...
Friday, July 9, 2021

The Forever Purge does feel like it goes on forever

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Amusingly, The Forever Purge begins by immediately discounting the events of The Purge: Election Year . That film's presidential candid...

Thanks to Florence Pugh and vulnerability, Black Widow packs an enjoyable punch

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It's not revelatory to say but this should have happened a long time ago. A Black Widow solo movie not happening back in Phase Two of t...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Internet-based deceit gets a vivid cinematic vessel in the exceptional Zola

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In doing a reflective review of the sketch comedy show I Think You Should Leave , Wired writer Peter Rubin noted that the appeal of this sh...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Steven Soderbergh delivers another fun and thoughtful crime movie No Sudden Move

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  Steven Soderbergh's back with another ensemble crime movie that folds in entertaining double-crosses and twists with potent fury at ho...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

Punisher: War Zone charges into B-movie carnage guns-a-blazing

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  I'm not sure The Punisher can work as the lead of a movie. I will never say something is impossible to translate to the screen but he ...