Mayday Is Saved by Its Own Stupidity – A Review
This review contains no spoilers. Mayday is at its best when it is stupid. Not the careless kind of stupid, where an SR-71 Blackbird behaves like an ordinary fighter jet and an untrained man can apparently fly one from the second seat. The committed kind. The sort...
Pressure Makes Grand Cinema Out of Men Arguing About Clouds – A Review
This review contains no spoilers. War likes to remember itself as a contest between men. Pressure gives the final word to the sky. Generals have assembled armies, ships and aircraft for D-Day, but all that power waits beneath clouds no rank can command and no plan...
The Invite turns Marital Misery into a Feast – A Review
This review contains minimal spoilers for The Invite. Olivia Wilde spends one of The Invite’s funniest moments crouched before an oven, watching a soufflé rise with the devotional intensity of a woman awaiting divine judgement. Behind her, a marriage is collapsing. The soufflé ends up in...
The Man From Earth is a Miracle of Simplicity – A Review
The Man from Earth is a ridiculous film. It really is. It has no right working as well as it does. I revisited it recently, and almost immediately remembered why it hit me so hard the first time. It is one of those films that sounds...