Dystopia Blues
Survival at all costs is key in The Bad Batch

Are there still interesting stories to be mined from the notion that we all do — or would do — shitty things to survive? Umpteen … Continue reading
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Are there still interesting stories to be mined from the notion that we all do — or would do — shitty things to survive? Umpteen … Continue reading
If you found yourself at dinner with Donald Trump, what would you do? Grit your teeth and get through it, not wanting to upset or … Continue reading
Too much has already been said about It Comes at Night, a completely insidious and utterly unsettling new horror film that continues to worm its … Continue reading
Why do superheroes do what they do? It’s a question often answered with a glib oversimplification: It’s the right thing. When you’ve developed a super-suit … Continue reading
Alongside baseball, the sport of boxing has provided a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories for movies to tell. Brutal, lonely and intimately attuned to the … Continue reading
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Whether aging is kind to an actor seems to be largely a matter of choice, and by extension, integrity. Often, great actors getting on in … Continue reading
Some movies make me talk, others shut me up good. After watching Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, for example, I couldn’t talk for two hours. Total … Continue reading
Within the first few minutes of The Circle, a tiresome cinematic exercise in false dichotomies, Mae (Emma Watson) tells a friend that she’ll send him … Continue reading
A carousing alcoholic with a tendency toward blackout, Gloria (the excellent Anne Hathaway) saunters home at sunrise one morning to find that her boyfriend, Tim … Continue reading