Pre-Screening Stance: Boys State was a big pick-up by A24. A documentary about, well, Boys State, a yearly Foreign Legion sponsored government camp where teenage dudes become teenage dudes who know stuff about government. It’s...
Pre-Screening Stance: IFC Midnight puts out some good horror flicks. IFC Midnight also puts out some not so great horror flicks. The trailer for Sputnik – a Russian alien flick from the looks of it...
Pre-Screening Stance: Though I am well aware of the crazily violent, misogynistic and increasingly dictatorial President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, I will admit to knowing next-to-nothing about the subject of A Thousand Cuts, Maria...
Pre-Screening Stance: This movie looks f’n scary. And not in the “pandemic-knocking-on-my-bedroom-window-while-the-American-government-flies-fighter-planes-over-national-monuments-instead-of-doing-a-damn-thing” kind of scary. Just like normal, good old fashioned, a little-pee-in-my-pants, terrifying. This is what I want right now. This kind of terror....
Pre-Screening Stance: From everything I can tell from the trailer – artistically grey cinematography, sharp pangs of violin music, unsmiling German faces – this movie isn’t going to be very uplifting. Luckily, non-uplifting is totally...
Pre-Screening Stance: Usually ’round these times all the summer movies are exploding off the screen and I’m complaining about how my cinematic teeth are rotting and I just want some Oscar-bait to chew on. This...
Pre-Screening Stance: It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a movie. Hell, it’s been a while since I’ve watched a film without thinking “I hope this numbs the weirdness.” The High Note looks to be...
Pre-Screening Stance: Gavin O’Connor directed Miracle and Warrior, two of the great blue-collar sports films of all time. His newest is about an alcoholic Ben Affleck trying to save himself and the season of a...
Pre-Screening Stance: Where Pixar movies once stood as tentpoles to my film watching anticipation, after a few lackluster releases, the luster has dimmed. Onward ticks a lot of boxes – fantastical animated movies, centaurs, etc....
Pre-Screening Stance: I honestly can’t say I have forgiven DC for Batman v. Superman. Or Justice League. Or, well, wow, Suicide Squad. I have a hint of enthusiasm for Wonder Woman, but I’m pretty sure...
