Movies

Jaguar, declawed

A throwaway genre cheapie that not even Nicolas Cage can enliven, PRIMAL should have…

Tough Cookie Meemaw’s home truths

There’s nothing extraordinary about THE FAREWELL, and that’s the…

The last temptation of Terrence

Terrence Malick’s A HIDDEN LIFE is kind of a return to form, but then…

Make believe

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, perfectly paired in Stanley Donen’s bubbly, frothy…

American graffiti

A great film maudit, Elaine May’s MIKEY AND NICKY is also a lost American classic…

The party’s over (or is it just starting?)

THE LAUNDROMAT is not his finest, but it is recognizable…

Are the Popes Catholic?

Or why THE TWO POPES suggests Netflix is taking over the prestige mini-majors’…

It’s what it is.

Thoughts on Martin Scorsese’s THE IRISHMAN

The Império Thursdays

It was one of the two “neighbourhood” theatres when I was a kid. One was five minutes down the street, literally, a…

JUMPING THE SHARK

ON FINDING SURPRISES AT LOCARNO AND LOVING BLACKKKLANSMAN — AND THEN GETTING HIT…