Coyote vs. Acme Refuses to be Written Off – A Review
For seventy-seven years, Wile E. Coyote has been falling. The ground cracks beneath his feet, rockets double back and every road ends with that small white bloom of dust at the bottom of a canyon. Coyote vs. Acme finally allows him to land. He walks...
Crowe and Bale are at their best in 3:10 to Yuma – A Review
This review contains spoilers for 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Ben Wade spends much of 3:10 to Yuma in chains, but Russell Crowe never lets him look like a prisoner. He watches every room with the mild amusement of a man who has already found the exits,...
A Bad Day in Suburbia: The End of Oak Street – A Review
First the street feels wrong. Then it feels empty. Then the dinosaurs arrive and everybody’s decision-making goes to the doghouse. It is, as you might expect, delightful. Director David Robert Mitchell takes a family comedy, drops it into prehistoric chaos and keeps tightening the screws...
Nolan was right to bet the house with Tenet – A Review
This review contains moderate spoilers. What happens when Christopher Nolan takes the laws of physics, folds them into a paper aeroplane and hurls the thing through a burning building? Tenet. An extraordinarily ballsy spy thriller which takes Nolan’s lifelong obsession with non-linear storytelling and pushes it...