By Bob Grimm All hail Project Hail Mary, a rousingly wonderful, beautifully strange sci-fi epic with Ryan Gosling and an enchanting pile of rocks at its center. Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller nailed their […]
By Bob Grimm Hoppers is one of Pixar’s goofiest and funniest movies yet—a self-professed animated riff on Avatar that is a million times more entertaining than Avatar. Mabel (the voice of Piper Curda) loves animals. […]
By Bob Grimm Glen Powell’s new movie, How to Make a Killing, is being marketed as a dark comedy—but you will not laugh once during this flat, soulless endeavor. Writer-director John Patton Ford makes the fatal […]
By Bob Grimm Skylab, the United States’ ill-fated first space station, was launched in 1973 and came crashing back to Earth in 1979. It has been a prominent plot device in some movies and TV […]
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Our reviewer offers top choices of film and TV that you can stream now By Juan-Carlos Selznick In the grimly challenging year of 2025, the “escapist” pleasures of the movies may have seemed, more than […]
By Bob Grimm The future is in cataclysmic peril because we stare at our phones and blather on social media all day in the apocalyptic comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Humanity has one last […]
By Bob Grimm Ben Affleck and Matt Damon team up again for Netflix’s The Rip. This time, they’re under the direction of Joe Carnahan (The Grey … it’s a great film if you haven’t seen it) as a […]
By Bob Grimm The film 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up where last June’s new zombie classic, 28 Years Later, left off. Danny Boyle, screenwriter Alex Garland and new director Nia DaCosta have officially claimed the […]
By Bob Grimm Going into Anaconda, I thought some creative folks were up to something that could be a lot of fun. First off, I thought Jack Black and Paul Rudd might be playing themselves as […]
By Bob Grimm In general, this wasn’t a great year to be on the planet. (Don’t get me started.) But it was actually a great year for cinema. In November, I passed the 30-year mark […]
By Bob Grimm Writer-director Rian Johnson has a successful trilogy with Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the third adventure for super-detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). By far, this is the gloomiest and most […]
By Bob Grimm Jay Kelly, a somewhat satirical look at the life of an aging movie star (George Clooney), comes to us from writer-director Noah Baumbach—which suggests that it may be a brutal look at […]
By Bob Grimm I wasn’t all that excited about a Predator movie that supposedly switched the point of view to that of the Predator, focusing on the hunter rather than the hunted. I also wasn’t […]
By Bob Grimm Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness) keep their bizarre yet awesome cinematic party going with Bugonia, their darkest pairing yet. Conspiracy-theorist Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin/sidekick, Don […]
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