“The Accountant” was a mid-sized hit from 2016 that, until recently, had a reputation as a wannabe franchise-starter that never got a follow-up. I watched the first movie for research last weekend, and I would have guessed that the reason the film went so long without a sequel was that the key players knew that […]

“Thunderbolts*,” the latest offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, seems like awfully familiar territory. In the film, a group of assassins, criminals, and burnouts band together to form a ragtag group of do-gooders looking for redemption. There are definitely shades of the MCU’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” in play. Or how about that Sony-controlled “Sinister […]

When I cared for my cousin Betty, throughout her several-month-long journey of transitioning, throughout the days and nights, she described people she was seeing who had passed away previously, men dressed in purple robes, and lions perched on pedestals. One day, she described a man I couldn’t see, but who was sitting beside me on […]

After a mere two weekends, “A Minecraft Movie” has claimed the top spot of the 2025 domestic box office. It’s not shocking that this franchise piece beat out January fare, but since then we’ve had an MCU entry and this movie just blew right past it. And I have to ask: Why? Okay, I know […]

We just got back from vacation. It was a week filled with laughter, fun, but not as one anticipates a vacation to roll out, with calamity and tears. One remarkable event was getting word that my husband’s aunt had passed unexpectedly. “Unexpected death” is such a strange term for when someone passes who has not […]

Disney’s “Snow White” is the latest live-action remake of one of the studio’s animated classics. In this case, it’s perhaps the biggest “classic” of all, as 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the first full-length animated feature in American history, and in 2008 was named the greatest animated film of all time by […]