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...
The Sheep Detectives is Too Smart to be This Careless – A Review
The sheep look up at the sky and decide that clouds are their dead. It is the kind of joke that should collapse the moment you explain it, yet somehow improves the longer you sit with it. Wool below, wool above. A flock with almost...