Movie Review: “Nightmare Alley”
Guillermo del Toro’s newest is not a horror movie, but a compellingly lurid story about carnies and con artists, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. Here’s my review.
Movie Review: “Swan Song”
Here’s my review of a movie that asks, “If you had a terminal disease, would you allow a scientist to create a duplicate to take your place in the world and live the life you’ll never have?”
Movie Review: “West Side Story”
My review of Steven Spielberg’s remake of the classic musical about Tony and Maria, the Sharks and the Jets, and a cop named Krupke. Does it do the original justice?
Movie Review: “King Richard”
My review of a movie starring Will Smith as Richard Williams, whose unorthodox strategies upended the tennis world and turned his daughters Venus and Serena into two of the greatest players in history. It will be on my Best Movies Of 2021 list.
Movie Review: “Belfast”
Kenneth Branagh’s wonderful little slice of life, drawn from the writer/director’s own childhood during The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the last 1960s, is a lock for my Best Movies Of 2021 list. Read my review here.
Movie Review: “Joy Ride”
My review of a new documentary chronicling a road trip by comedians Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould as they tour and perform together while reminiscing about their oddly similar upbringings.