Thoughts on “Asteroid City,” the latest from writer/director Wes Anderson, and Pasolini 101, a new (and spectacular) set from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
ASTEROID CITY
The play’s the thing, and for Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), a Tennessee Williams-type with a predilection for Tom of Finland cowboy art, his new play is sure to be the one that wakes the audience up. Or puts them to … Continue reading ASTEROID CITY
Movies discussed on this week’s show: “Elemental” and “The Blackening.” Continue reading
THE BLACKENING
They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them. But that was then, and this is now. And now they’re all getting together in a … Continue reading THE BLACKENING
DALÍLAND
It’s not easy being Dalí,” surrealist painter Salvador Dalí tells his assistant, 50 years his junior. Certainly not, by the looks of it: From parties to paintings, Dalí’s life is one continuous machine of theatricality and commerce surrounded by hangers-on, … Continue reading DALÍLAND
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Peter Parker was just another kid in Queens when he was bitten by a radioactive spider, bringing physical gifts (and a simultaneous curse) beyond his wildest dreams. He may have a heightened sixth sense and strength hundreds of times that … Continue reading SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
TRAIL STREET
Liberal, Kansas is in disarray. The farmers, backed by banker Allen Harper (Robert Ryan), are trying to turn the hard, dry land into fertile soil. The cattlemen, financed by Logan Maury (Steve Brodie), are trying to run them out—either by stampeding … Continue reading TRAIL STREET
Movies discussed on this week’s edition of After Image: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “Sanctuary.” Continue reading
THELMA & LOUISE
The women are on the run. One is a sheltered housewife married to a pig of a man. The other is a waitress hiding from her past. Both are wanted in connection with a murder outside an Arkansas honky-tonk, and … Continue reading THELMA & LOUISE
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