Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens with a God’s-eye view of a fragile sliver of green in a vast expanse of rust orange: an oasis of life in the post-apocalyptic...
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An alien crashes to Earth near a remote cabin, tosses its owner into the lake, replicates his DNA, takes on his identity as a vacationing physician, and...
Cabrini Directed by Alejandro Monteverde (Angel Studios, 2024) In 1946, Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized. “Mother Cabrini,”...
Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a...
Avatar: The Last Airbender Developed by Albert Kim (Netflix, 2024) On one hand, Avatar: The Last Airbender is familiar, almost predictable. Repeatedly, Avatar...
A Murder at the End of the World Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (FX, 2023) In murder mysteries, why do audiences fixate on the killers? What about...
The popular British science fiction series Doctor Who has just celebrated a momentous landmark: 60 years of broadcasting. What started as a modest time-travel...
Killers of the Flower Moon Directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount, 2023) An “Incompetent”: one who is not legally permitted to freely wield one’s own resources...
The inevitable analogy of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two as The Empire Strikes Back to Dune: Part One’s Star Wars was recently highlighted by Christopher...
Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
