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Depression can be a black hole of emotions; a never-ending pit that is nearly impossible to claw your way out and Midday Black Midnight Blue is fully encompassed by that black hole from beginning to end. Ian, a man well into mid-life, is haunted by the joy and pain of an old flame.
The main question you have to ask yourself when deciding if you’re going see this movie is “Does seeing Michael Keaton put on the ol’ Batsuit and once again speak aloud an ad-libbed catchphrase justify spending more than two hours with multiple versions of Ezra Miller and some pretty substandard CGI?”
Hasbro’s robots in disguise get a competent reboot in the latest iteration.
There’s a point (two, actually) to this rather involved setup: One, make a good enough movie and superhero burnout becomes irrelevant; and Two, Into the Spider-Verse’s brand-new follow-up, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, sustains its predecessor’s hat trick and then some. Simply put, I can’t imagine a better, more thoroughly satisfying mainstream movie emerging this year.
The Boogeyman (2023 | USA | 98 minutes | Rob Savage) My introduction to Stephen King’s writing happened in junior high, when I …
Across three decades of directing and screenwriting Nicole Holofcener has long established herself as being incredibly good at making movies about grown ups with small problems that can also feel as big as the whole world.
SIFF was back in-person with paper ballots and back to their traditional May stomping grounds. Might the 10-day festival be the new …
Dreamin’ Wild (2022 | USA | 110 min. | Bill Pohlad) Like Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic, Love & Mercy, his retelling of what happened when …
Two of Morgen’s favorite films from SIFF 2023 happened to be the midnight features on the first and last Friday of the fest. Find out why a wacky time-traveling joint and Taiwanese puppetry made it to the top of her list.
Two documentaries about the performing arts: prodigious pianists and a spectacular failure of capitalism.
