
Review: ‘Hellbender’ invites us to live deliciously
Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s a through-line to some of the best movies of…
Review: ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ short on dinosaurs, entertainment
Reading Time: 2 minutes The original Jurassic Park had fewer than 100 visual effects shots. That they still look good decades…
Review: In the age of streaming, ‘Satantango’ remains as captivating as ever
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sátántangó’s opening shot follows a herd of cows wandering a desolate town. The shot is nearly eight…
Review: ‘Prehistoric Planet’ takes nature-as-spectacle filmmaking to new heights
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the opening moments of Prehistoric Planet, the BBC’s splashy, heavily computer-generated nature documentary narrated by David…
Review roundup: ‘Row 19’ and ‘Firestarter’
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a child, Katerina was the sole survivor of a mysterious plane crash that left her motherless.…
Review: ‘Hit the Road’ is a sharp-witted directorial debut
Reading Time: 2 minutes There was a tweet by critic Matt Singer that made the Internet rounds earlier this month consisting…
‘Stanleyville’ thumbs nose at meritocracy, basically everything
Reading Time: 2 minutes Kisangani is a major commercial port city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Under Belgian colonization…
Double-feature review: ‘The Northman’ and ‘Saturday Fiction’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Back in 1996, writers Andrew Strader and Nick Nicholas took a mildly funny running gag from Star…
Michael Bay excess finds worthy outlet in ‘Ambulance’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Following the Sam Raimi retrospective on the Blank Check podcast (they recently covered Army of Darkness) offers…
‘Cow,’ ‘Gunda,’ and the strangeness of the mundane
Reading Time: 2 minutes The first movie I watched theatrically in 2021, following roughly a year of streaming and semi-deranged DVD…
FOLLOW MYLES MIKULIC