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For over 15 years, I’ve been viewing and reviewing the annual collection of British ads that win industry recognition and screen at venues including the Walker Art Center.
The ads make a popular seasonal attraction because they’re often wildly entertaining: witty and visually inventive. The presentation always involves some emotional whiplash, though, as cozy ads fo...
The highest compliment I can pay to The Legend of Ochi is that it’s the kind of movie that would have both fascinated me and freaked me out as a kid in the ’80s. If that’s not what writer-director Isiah Saxon was going for, it’s impossible to say what else he might have had in mind.
Ochi evokes that era through its setting in time (as best that can...
Normally, I would critique I Wish You All the Best for its cartoonishly villainous antagonists. In 2025, though, it seems like half of America is ready to make a heel turn when it comes to vulnerable queer youth.
Writer-director Tommy Dorfman’s movie, based on the 2019 young adult novel by Mason Deaver, opens with teenage Ben (Corey Fogelmanis) being kicked...
A casino game is most exciting when just the right number of variables are in play. Make the game too complex, and it’s better-suited for the bridge table. Make it too simple, and you might as well be watching kids play war.
Similarly, Ballad of a Small Player is at its most engaging early on, when we don’t quite know the characters — or, more to the point,...
One reason I’ve stuck with the Star Wars franchise is that the original trilogy of movies are so rich, they point to storytelling possibilities far beyond the Skywalker saga space opera.
Star Wars: Visions harks to Luke’s cave encounter in The Empire Strikes Back, an imagined Darth Vader duel in which lightsabers are swung but what’s at stake is th...
