Suspiria movie review: The fast and the suspirious

I’ve only seen the original Suspiria by Dario Argento once, so I’m a bad horror fan. Therefore, I don’t have any attachment to it and the remake is fine, but it’s way too long. Adding 45 minutes to the adaptation doesn’t improve it, especially in the protracted epilogue. The most egregious addition is a Holocaust

Bohemian Rhapsody movie review: Don’t stop Rami now

I’m happy to report that this is not Bohemian Crapsody. I also thank Dexter Fletcher for this movie. Bohemian Rhapsody would never have been completed without him. Even if Bryan Singer had returned to the production, they could not have waited to assess his ability to finish filming. The only way to keep the actors

Can You Ever Forgive Me? movie review: Deserve’s got nothing to do with it

I have to say, I never got sucked into identifying with criminals like Henry Hill and Tony Montana. I knew drugs and murder were bad so as entertaining as their stories were, I never felt bad for them when it came crashing down. Lee Israel at her worst only defrauded some pretentious art collectors so

Beautiful Boy movie review: Call meth by your name

Requiem for a Dream and Trainspotting captured the physical experience of being a drug addict. Beautiful Boy is about the emotional experience, and it’s not just the addict. It’s his family too. Journalist David Sheff (Steve Carell) tries to get his son Nic (Timothee Chalamet) help for his crystal meth addiction. David and his wife

First Man movie review: La la lunar landing

For decades, The Right Stuff has been the definitive movie about man’s landing on the moon. There’ve been other astronaut movies like Apollo 13 and the more in-depth miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, but now First Man takes a more individual look at the Apollo missions. We meet Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) on

First Man screenwriter Josh Singer on what Neil Armstrong may have left on the moon

First Man tells the story of Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling)’s journey to the moon, beginning with the death of his daughter Karen (Lucy Stafford). The film suggests Armstrong may have left something of hers there. Screenwriter Josh Singer adapted James Hansen’s biography of Armstrong. Damien Chazelle directed the film. No stranger to historical stories, Singer