Enlarge / Celebrate the Year of the Metal Ox with two new films: A Writer’s Odyssey and Space Sweepers (credit: Aurich Lawson/Netflix/CMC Films/) February brings the annual celebration of the lunar new year—welcome to the Year of the (Metal) Ox—and with it two new action-packed films from China and South Korea, respectively. Directed by Lu […]
Enlarge / Greg (Owen Wilson) and Isabel (Salma Hayek) find themselves shifting between a beautiful and an “ugly” world—but which is real, and which is the simulation? (credit: YouTube/Amazon) A depressed man finds himself questioning the reality of his existence when he meets a free-spirited woman who insists he’s inhabiting a simulation in Bliss, a […]
A flashback to Themyscira. [credit: YouTube/Warner Bros. ] Count me among the many millions who likely logged onto HBO Max on Christmas Day to watch Wonder Woman 1984, Director Patty Jenkins’ hotly anticipated, oft-delayed stand-alone follow-up to her 2017 global blockbuster, Wonder Woman. I’m a major fan of the latter, which gave us our super-powered […]
Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton celebrity as a serial killer and also a high school pupil that swap figures at the new terror humor Freaky, composed and directed by Christopher Landon. Walt Disney Studios hit the proverbial motherlode at 1976 using its now-classic body-swap humor Freaky Friday, starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris as a girl […]
Expand / Luna Wedler (left) plays with a young medical student with a key in from the German play Biohackers, also Cornelia Gröschel (right) stars as a diner waitress who finds she’s super power in the German movie, Freaks: You Are One of Us. Both are now flowing on Netflix. (charge: Netflix/Sean Carroll) As somebody […]