Pre-Screening Stance: André Øvredal has directed some good movies – The Autopsy Of Jane Doe, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Troll Hunter – but his last one, 2020’s Mortal, was particularly bad. Maybe...
Pre-Screening Stance: I was all about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was a kid, so Mutant Mayhem is essentially my Barbie. Well, not really, but I will always have a soft spot for the...
Pre-Screening Stance: Talk To Me looks like it’s going to be awesome. Granted, this feeling of mine is largely driven by the really positive comments that have come out of its festival plays, but still,...
Pre-Screening Stance: Theater Camp has a great cast – Molly Gordon, Ayo Edebiri, Jimmy Tatro, etc. – and it looks like it’s going to be pretty funny. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just blame Ben...
Pre-Screening Stance: I don’t think Christopher Nolan has a made a bad film yet, so of course I’m more than ready to see what he’s done with Oppenheimer. Post-Screening Ramble: I’ll need to see it...
Pre-Screening Stance: Barbie is seemingly most of the world’s most anticipated film of 2023. For me, it’s definitely way, way up there, but when any movie has a hype train off the rails and marketing...
Pre-Screening Stance: Weirdly, the only thing I know about Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is that it features a scene where Tom Cruise launches himself off a mountain via a motorcycle. What the...
Pre-Screening Stance: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out 15 years ago but it was so disliked that it’s still hanging over the franchise and seemingly damning The Dial of Destiny....
Pre-Screening Stance: I wasn’t a huge fan of Wes Anderson’s last effort, The French Dispatch, but hey, it’s Wes Anderson, so of course I’m happy to dive right into Asteroid City. Just judging by the...
Pre-Screening Stance: Jennifer Lawrence is a real talent and Gene Stupnitsky’s last film – 2019’s Good Boys – was solid, but I haven’t exactly been chomping at the bit to see No Hard Feelings. Something...
