“Jerry and Marge Go Large” is pleasant and utterly disposable (Tribeca Film Festival ’22 Review)
Jerry and Marge Go Large is a genial story of a recently laid off older man who manages to crack the formula for regularly winning a lottery game. He uses his discovery to win millions of dollars which is largely deployed to help revitalize his community. It’s a bit of groaner of a plot description, […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi Part V Draws the Series Closer to an Unsatisfying Conclusion with the Best Episode Yet (Part V Recap)
My positivity about Obi-Wan Kenobi is running out. The series’ penultimate episode, while being the strongest so far, failed to completely quell my worries about the overall series. There’s the chance that the finale is able to completely redeem everything we’ve seen so far, but the general track record of the Star Wars TV series, […]
“Lightyear” Soars When It Escapes the IP Shackles (Review)
It’s hard to escape the cynical genesis of this movie. Confusingly branded from the jump (voice actor Chris Evans once tweeted that it was about the human man upon whom the Buzz Lightyear toy was based), and the final explanation – that the film is the movie that blew Andy’s mind and inspired his desire […]
“The Policeman’s Lineage” is a Fever Dream Whose Rewards Are Outweighed by Its Demerits (Review)
The Policeman’s Lineage is a film of many faces, if all of those faces were blurry or faded, and none of them were fleshed out or fully realized. Directed by Kyoo-man Lee (Wide Awake) and starring two Parasite alums, Choi-woo Shik and Park Myung-hoon, the film establishes itself as something akin to a fever dream in […]