“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters” – Goya Dr. Rich Freeman (Santino Fontana), an aspiring and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis — the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the… [Read More]
Transit – Just Passing Through (Or Not)
There is an old gospel song, “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through”. A bit of that sense of temporariness is what we find in Transit from German director Christian Penzold. There are various aspects of this film that may leave us a bit off-balance, but that just adds to the depth… [Read More]
Captain Marvel – Putting the Super in Human
“There is nothing more dangerous for a warrior than emotion.” (Yon-Rogg) A new superhero comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain Marvel brings us the MCU’s first woman superhero, a soldier in the midst of an intergalactic war who ends up on earth and becomes ground zero for that war. Ah, but all may not… [Read More]
Happy Death Day 2 U
If you missed 2017’s Happy Death Day, we can’t really help you. So much of the fun is in the surprises that it would be a disservice to ruin the journey for you (which, ironically, makes reviewing the sequel all the more challenging). But here’s what you need to know. In the first film, the… [Read More]
The Year of the Dragon (1985): Bringing the War Home #TBT
Michael Cimino, of The Deer Hunter fame and Heaven’s Gate notoriety, shoots the gap between his Oscar wins for the first and the derision of his work for the second in Mickey Rourke’s The Year of the Dragon. While Rourke had collaborations with Steven Spielberg (1941), Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat), Barry Levinson (Diner), and Francis Ford Coppola (Rumble Fish) under… [Read More]
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