[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 21st, 2025. 1) RENTAL FAMILY Every now and then, a movie comes along that shouldn't really work, and yet somehow, against all odds, it does. Rental Family  is one of those movies. The conce

Adam Sandler , who is currently starring in the George Clooney mess Jay Kelly , is one of those guys that everybody  has an opinion about. For most people, he’s the loud, goofy, juvenile clown who made a fortune playing overgrown man-children who yell funny nonsense, punch people in the face, and fall down a lot. For others (and I’d put myself in this camp) he’s a wildly talented performer who, yes, built an empire on dumb comedies, but who’s also capable of incredible dept

Richard Linklater is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time... no question. A true hero of cinema. A guy who never sold out, never moved to Hollywood, never stopped making his  kind of movies. He’s an artist who stayed home in Austin, Texas, where he’s from, and built a career doing things on his own terms. He’s one of the great American directors, a genuine champion of independent film, and a storyteller who somehow manages to make the most everyday moments feel absolute

[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 14th, 2025. 1) THE RUNNING MAN Edgar Wright's   The Running Man  is the second adaptation of Stephen King's  1982 novel (originally written under his Richard Bachman  pseudonym) and a rema

One of the most beloved and popular subgenres in the sports movie world is, of course, the boxing movie. Boxing movies have been incredibly popular since the early days of cinema. We love boxing movies, especially the underdog stories. It’s a perfect genre for that. It’s a great way to tell a story, to get the audience involved, to make them cheer, to make it personal and relatable. Everybody can identify with the struggle, the fight, the comeback, the one last shot. We all l

Well, if you know me at all, you know that horror is my favorite genre. On this website, I've already shared my favorite werewolf and vampire movies. Now it’s time, finally, to talk about my favorite Frankenstein movies. I’m sharing this in honor of the new Guillermo del Toro version of Frankenstein , which, let’s be honest here, is not good. In fact, it’s pretty bad. Guillermo del Toro has somehow done the impossible: he’s taken Mary Shelley ’s classic Gothic novel and turn

[Get the exclusive video  version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon !] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 7th, 2025. 1) PREDATOR: BADLANDS So here we go again. Another Predator  movie. The sixth live-action one, if you're keeping score, though, at this point it feels like the fourteenth because

With the release of his new movie The Wrecker   (an over-the-top, unintentionally hilarious action flick that somehow made its way into theaters) I thought it was time to take a minute to celebrate one of my favorite actors of all time: Harvey Keitel . Because even if The Wrecker  is a certifiably ridiculous film, Harvey’s still Harvey... fascinating, intense, and endlessly watchable. Harvey Keitel has been one of the most consistent, fearless, and flat-out interesting actors

INTRODUCTION: My 10 Favorite Music Biopics (Non-Documentary) With the release of the new music biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere , I thought it would be fun to give you my list of my Top 10 Favorite Music Biopics of All Time. Now, just to make this clear right off the bat, these are not documentaries . The ten films I’m ranking here are narrative movies, they are fictionalized (sometimes very  fictionalized) dramatizations of real musicians, songwriters, and bands.