LaRoy, Texas The phrase “LaRoy, Texas” is an immediate test of expectations. Driving down a dark dirt country road, Harry (Dylan Baker) whose car headlights are the only beacons of life in the barren clime passes a broken down truck parked off road. A few yards later, Harry sees the possible driver of the abandoned […]
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour The “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is simply a jaw dropping feat of technology that manages to embody the feeling of attending one of the pop goddess’ sold out concerts in all its vastness and intimacy. Cameras under director Sam Wrench’s eye are everywhere at once as Swift belts, stomps
We Have a Ghost Christopher Landon is the creator of some wonderfully strange horror movies that escape the usual cynicism of today’s genre. He does not engage in any “elevated horror” nonsense but rather infects his films with an exuberance so infectious it should be illegal Regardless of how they were executed or their overall
The Wrath of Becky Why make “The Wrath of Becky,” a limp revenge fantasy where a teenage girl kills Neo-Nazis in a cabin? The idea for “The Wrath of Becky” came after “Becky,” the decent but disappointing 2020 revenge fantasy that pitted fourteen year old Becky (Lulu Wilson) against a gang of skinheads she’d lured
The Real Bros of Simi Valley: The Movie In 2018, Youtube released the first episode of “The Real Bros of Simi Valley.” The show went on for three seasons, following four grown men who dropped out of high school over a decade ago as they tried to take control of their lives. The series was
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget It is with absolutely no pleasure that I write this sentence: “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is fine. It may be more than enough for parents sifting for something to occupy their kids on Netflix next week but it’s not what Aardman Animation, the creative geniuses behind Wallace
Bird Writer director Andrea Arnold, eight years ago, put her kitchen-sink British austerity style and took it to the US for American Honey, a film about a wolf pack of kids in a van who were like the 21st century’s walking embodiment of chaos. It was an indie explosion that felt like a landmark hip-hop
His Three Daughters It is believed that the best way to expose the imperfections of bad movies is by making a better one. This year, at TIFF, there were two films about three sisters and their father which inadvertently did exactly that. One of them is artificial and insincere even by this year’s standards; the
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot It’s natural to be suspicious of an Angel Studios picture after all, the Utah-based movie studio made its mark last year with the surprising box office success of the child trafficking thriller “Sound of Freedom.” The film raked in $242 million off the back of a QAnon
Theater Camp You don’t have to know your Wicked from your Waitress or your Lerner from your Loewe to appreciate the good-natured humor of “Theater Camp” but it helps. This mockumentary is by, for and about theater geeks, but there’s enough of that infectious hey kids let’s put on a show energy here to engage
