Movie Reviews and Other Writings

Uncle Frank is about a young woman, Beth, who doesn't feel she fits in with her southern, small town family. She finds kinship with her family's other outcast, Frank, her father's brother. When Beth moves to New York City to go to college, she learns that uncle Frank is gay and no one in the family really knows. When the patriarch, Daddy Mac, Frank's father, passes, Frank and Beth head down to South Carolina. Of course despite Frank's insistence, Wally, Frank's partner, stows

Superintelligence is a comedy about an artificial intelligence that is giving itself just three days in which to observe humanity and make its decision on whether or not to save, enslave, or destroy everyone. To help it decide, it has chosen very average Carol Peters and has told her that she must make things right with her ex-boyfriend in order so that it can observe human behavior. Hijinks ensue. The film stars Melissa McCarthy, James Corden, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree He

Happiest Season is about a couple who are going to visit family for Christmas. The only catch is that Harper, whose family it is, hasn't told them about her girlfriend, Abby... or that she's a lesbian in a healthy relationship with Abby. Abby is willing to go along with it with the promise that after the holidays Harper will reveal all. Nothing goes according to plan and Abby begins to question if she should be with someone who is denying a whole part of herself to her family

Run is a suspense thriller about a mother and daughter. Chloe, the daughter, was born needing a tremendous amount of care. Diane, the mother, is dedicated to caring for and helping her daughter. Yet, as Chloe is on the cusp of college, she discovers a strange new pill among all of the pills in the regiment she takes each day. The pill sends her down a rabbit hole and helps her discover a dark secret her mother's been keeping from her. The film stars Kiera Allen, Sarah Paulson

The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a horror comedy about a small Utah mountain town terrorized by a series of gruesome killings. John, a sheriff's deputy and son to the current sheriff, is attempting to take command from his ailing father. Yet, his anger issues and his alcoholism are exacerbated by the crimes. As his descent into madness cements, the case is starting to make him think the stories of a werewolf being behind the attacks are real. The film stars Jim Cummings, Riki Lindh

My Year with Adam is a series of essays that I will post throughout this year. The essays will be deep dives into a film starring Adam Sandler. They will not be traditional reviews, but an exploration of theme and what is conveyed by the central message of the film. Or, really, whatever about the film strikes me the most while watching it. As these are deep dives, no aspect, plot point or quote from the film is off limits, so if you haven't seen the film before and are sensit

Misbehaviour is based on the true story of an incident at the Miss World beauty pageant of 1970. The film follows several groups. The first is the group of women in the women's movement that plan to disrupt the pageant. The next is the pageant coordinators. The third is the contestants in the pageant including two Black women competing as their country's first entrants. The fourth is Bob Hope and his wife Dolores as Bob prepares to be a special guest at the event. The film st