Argylle movie review: just *argh*
A vacuous multitentacled exercise in pop-culture marketing, and a crass, confused, charmless showcase for Matthew Vaughn’s goes-to-11 hyperactive “style” of unconvincing CGI and frenetic fight scenes.
Bryan Cranston
weekend watchlist: hacking capitalism
Plus the horror stories women live, cold cops, and more. (First published July 2nd, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
Isle of Dogs movie review: a breed apart, or a breed too far?
Absolutely delightful and utterly original, with its lovingly crafted stop-motion animation bursting with sweetness but also with a winking mockery. I have just a few caveats…
Wakefield movie review: man of the house (emeritus)
An appalling elevation of toxic masculinity to something poignant, radical, and heroic. As unpleasant and as passive-aggressive as its horrid protagonist.
my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)
Now updated with all the winners…
Trumbo movie review: liberal Hollywood? ha!
Marvelously balances the silly and the solemn. There’s almost a whiff of the Coen-esque in its slick sharpness, in its whistling past the graveyard.
Godzilla movie review: sympathy for Gojira
Elegantly updates the King of All Monsters for the 21st century… but Hollywood’s tedious myopia means the movie as a whole isn’t quite so beautiful.
Godzilla trailer: this is gonna be awesome
“All those nuclear tests in the Pacific… not tests.” Ooo, that gave me chills.
Cold Comes the Night review: eh, lukewarm, anyway
A familiar-feeling crime thriller is enlivened by unexpectedly down-to-earth, hardbitten characters weighed down by the mundane weariness of life on the edge.
Cold Comes the Night trailer: don’t you threaten her baby!
I like Alice Eve. And I love Bryan Cranston. So, fingers crossed.
