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Monday, March 28, 2022

In Laman's Terms: Why was the 94th Academy Awards such a calamity?

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  We're not talking about "that slap" here. Yes, it's all anyone's talking about, but that's why I'm not bring...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Douglas Laman's 94th Academy Awards Predictions

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Here we are again, another Academy Awards ceremony. And even with everything being super busy in my life, I couldn't resist the chance t...
Monday, March 21, 2022

X is hot for empathetic slasher movie storytelling

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Thanks to the sleeper hit The VVitch , A24 has turned to horror movies as a go-to vehicle for commercial cinema that can crossover into main...

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a great balance of the sprawling, the intimate, and the bizarre

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If you saw Swiss Army Man , the last movie from the directorial duo Daniels (comprised of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), then you know what...

Deep Water is too shallow for its own good

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Cue up the Staind music, cause "it's been a while" since we had a major erotic thriller in American cinema. A staple of 1980s ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Make way for masterfully melancholy filmmaking with Make Way for Tomorrow

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Movies fall through the cracks of history for different reasons. Some wind up obscure because of mixed reception from audiences and critics....
Friday, March 18, 2022

The Outfit is perfectly acceptable crime fare

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In a recent episode of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, there was a comment about Springtime indie movies. The hosts of this podcast reflec...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

The Adam Project is insulting in its lack of creativity

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  Adam Reed (Walker Scobell) is having a tough time. He's a 12-year-old grappling with the death of his father, Louis (Mark Ruffalo), fr...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

You need to catch a ride at Central Station

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  It's so much fun to finish a movie and then immediately know "Oh, that's gonna become one of my favorites." That doesn...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Cyrano is an endearingly unabashedly romantic, if still flawed, musical

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  Cyrano makes it apparent early on whether or not this romantic musical will be for you. As Roxanne (Hayley Bennett) is riding in a carriag...

"Darkness!" and "No Parents" actually serve The Batman well

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  With eight different live-action movies starring Batman (and that's not even counting the two projects headlined by Ben Affleck'...
Friday, February 25, 2022

It's best to promptly leave No Exit

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  The modern age of streaming movies dictates that such titles emulate the kind of fare you could see on the big screen. Of course, this var...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Uncharted goes to familiar territory for treasure hunting movies

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  As my screening for Uncharted began, I half-expected the Gremlins to break into the projection booth and sabotage the whole thing. This vi...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

The Worst Person in the World is absolutely the best

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  One of the most affecting moments of BoJack Horseman  comes when the titular character is talking to his prospective daughter, Hollyhock....
Monday, February 14, 2022

Marry Me is just what you'd want from an old-school romantic-comedy

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  Shortly after his directorial debut, The Rental , came out, Dave Franco revealed that his next project as a filmmaker would be a romantic-...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Kimi is a superb technological thriller

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It'd be great under any circumstances that Steven Soderbergh, the man behind so many exceptional films, came back from retirement. But i...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

In Laman's Terms: A eulogy for Entertainment Weekly

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The 1000th issue of Entertainment Weekly and one of the first issues I ever devoured of the publication In Laman's Terms is an editorial...