‘Blood for Dust’ (The Avenue)
On this week’s show I talked to Rod Blackhurst, the director of the new film Blood for Dust, about … well, a whole bunch of stuff. From his early shorts on the...
There's this very dumb controversy on Film Twitter (but I repeat myself) involving credit given to Andy Ngo and Helen Lewis for using some stock footage early in the picture. But these people aren't...
Cailee Spaeny and Kirsten Dunst in Civil War. (Courtesy A24)
THE THING THAT CIVIL WAR CAPTURES about sectarian conflict is that it is not typically a coherent ideological struggle, one forcing the...
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Every once in a while you see a movie that is so spectacularly misconceived that you wonder how the people involved decided to make it. DOGMAN is one of those movies: it doesn't work as drama, or as...
Before we get started: a handful of tickets are left for Across the Movie Aisle live tonight. If you’ve never seen (or, almost as importantly, heard) Arrival on the big screen, you’re not going to...
Have to say, I'm a little surprised at the rapturous praise for this movie, which is decidedly "okay." Once we get to the main action sequence at the end, the fights are pleasingly brutal, but holy...
This movie is kind of fascinating because it has a singularly silly premise (what if the backyard pool is killing people!) and makes it even sillier (magic water demands sacrifices!) and yet it still...
Before we get started: you’re running out of time to pick up tickets to the live show at the Bryant Street Alamo Drafthouse in DC. Tuesday, April 9. We’re talking Arrival. It’s gonna be great! Tickets...
I liked this a lot, but I do think it was a pretty big mistake to frame it as a “found footage” movie. If you’re going to pretend the black and white portions are behind the scenes footage you...
A pretty straightforward talking head doc with a little courtroom footage, but no less infuriating for that. Alex Jones is a garbage human being and it’s good he may be losing all his money, but I’m...
I liked this quite a bit: it inspired a number of mirthful chuckles. I’ve got an interview with writer-director Bob Byington and star David Krumholtz coming tomorrow, which was fun (and a bit nerve-wracking,...
Before we get started: make sure to pick up your tickets for Arrival at the DC Bryant Street Drafthouse on Tuesday, April 9. We’re doing a live taping after the movie, so it’s a great chance to come...
There’s going to be a lot of chatter about whether Conor McGregor is “good” or “bad” in this movie, but it’ll all miss the point because he’s literally the only interesting thing about...
So ... I didn't hate GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, though I don't think it entirely works. That said: the audience I saw it with clapped like seals every time they saw a reference to the first two movies....
I think Sandler is fundamentally miscast here but I think it’s also fascinating to consider why he’d want to make something in which he plays the dourest man alive. Talked about it on Across the...
Tickets to our screening of Arrival and live-taping of an episode of the show are going fast! It’s Tuesday, April 9, at 7PM in Washington, D.C., at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Bryant Street location on...
The hardest my kids laughed during this movie was the Alamo Drafthouse preroll, which showed the Panda Cheese commercials where people say they don’t want Panda Cheese and then a guy in a panda suit...
Before we get started, some fun news: Peter, Alyssa, and Sonny are going to be at the DC Bryant Street Drafthouse on Tuesday, April 9 for a screening of Arrival and a live show. Should be a fun time; make...
On this week’s episode Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Ian Bogost’s essay at The Atlantic suggesting the 4K revolution is a bit...
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