Overlord is a… well, okay. SPOILER warning right off the bat. Overlord is a war movie crossed with a horror movie, and oddly enough the war movie is better. If you cut out all zombies—maybe the Aunt really is sick, the lab is full of dead …
The Screening Room: A Simple Favor
A Simple Favor is a more TV than TV, in this era of modern prestige shows: shot conventionally, with a crackerjack plot, and focused on women and their self-images and aspirations. Funny, suspenseful, edited with a ruthless efficiency and performed very well by Anna Kendrick and …
The Screening Room: My Dinner with Andre
It was a quiet evening last night when I decided to watch My Dinner with Andre. I’d been avoiding it for literally years. A movie that was just two people having a conversation at a restaurant? It sounded so unusual. Sure, I’d read the reviews, …
The Screening Room: Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams is the most Baby Boomer movie I’ve ever seen. The only one that possibly beats it is Forest Gump. Field of Dreams, on the other hand, is just as much a sloppy blowjob to the Baby Boomer generation, while being much harder to hate. I don’t even hate it, really. But for all our sakes, I’m going to try.
The Screening Room: Dope
I’m not sure how I feel about Dope, a movie that seems to resist categorization as strongly as its protagonist. Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is an idiosyncratic, black high school senior who exists uneasily in an Inglewood neighborhood where gangs and the drug trade loom threatening between the 90s hip hop geek and traditional (read: “white”) avenues of success, especially his desired admission to Harvard. The movie is about who Malcolm really is, but my question is what the movie really is.