The invite was a surprising treat with wall-to-wall laughs and a serious emotional core. Olivia Wilde bounced back with a force, directing and starring in this single-location relationship drama with authoritatively self-depreciating humor, tight blocking, and an arrow fired directly into the heart of contemporary relationship dynamics.

Esther Perel, the Belgian psychotherapist known for her 2006 book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, served as an advisor to The Invite a couple of decades after Wilde was Perel's patient. Many…

I watched Artemis II splashdown in the Pacific Ocean an hour before watching the new entry into the Space Movie that Helps us Better Understand Life on Earth canon. My appreciation for the partnered space-related events was drastically one-sided. I loved Project Hail Mary. I could not care less about Artemis II. 

I don't care about Artemis II and therefore do not know much about it. I did not know why they went or who the crew was or who…

Really strange work. Did Spielberg make this movie fifty years too late? Does he think we haven't reckoned with entering a modern era enough or that we don't realize the era we're living in?

Plenty of classic Spielberg and Koepp hype moments, especially the freight train debacle. Very strange performances from O'Connor and Firth but great work from Watson and Domingo.

The film's central ideas feel trite and excessively tread on, which make it feel like a relic of the…

a fraught but gentle little story about abandonment, sacrifice, and forgiveness. 

Julie Gholson, a 13-year-old Watauga County resident was cast as Mary Call Luther after being the last of 640 local North Carolinans to audition for the film. Her only on-screen role was transcendent, making the film feel like a glimpse into a true story about four orphaned siblings going to great lengths to avoid separation at the hand of the state. 

The parent/child dynamic is both sacred and necessary,…

There is nothing to grasp here, nothing to grab hold of, take part of, enjoy, or even experience.

Don't take my word for it, but also don't take the word of the film fest-obsessed wannabe critics who tell you that Fincher's back in his chaotic era which brought us fight club or whatever they're saying. The Killer wasn't very good.

At what point does this become a skill issue? Fassbender's gun for hire character, is bland and not very good…