[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review two new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, July 17th, 2026. 1) THE ODYSSEY The Odyssey is exactly the kind of movie that reminds me why I have what is, for a lot of people, a very unpopular opinion: I am simply not a Christopher Nolan fan. I know that's p

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] 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, July 1Oth, 2026. 1) EVIL DEAD BURN It’s still remarkable to me that one scrappy little independent horror movie made by three young filmmakers outside Detroit with virtually no money has become one of the most i

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] 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, July 3rd, 2026. 1) MINIONS & MONSTERS I'll admit something right up front: before I walked into Minions & Monsters, I actually had to stop and remember how many of these things they've made. Seriously. I had com

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] 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, June 26th, 2026. 1) SUPERGIRL Anybody who has listened to my podcast, heard me on the radio over the years, or regularly reads my reviews knows one thing: I am not a comic book guy. I’m not invested in the endle

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] 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, June 19th, 2026. 1) TOY STORY 5 It's hard for me to believe that the Toy Story universe has been around for more than thirty years. Thirty years. The original Toy Story opened in November of 1995, and just typin

[Get the exclusive video version of these weekly reviews each Friday by becoming a paid subscriber!] 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 movie reviews for Friday, June 12th, 2026. 1) DISCLOSURE DAY One of the first things that crossed my mind while watching Disclosure Day was that if you've ever wondered whether somebody was eventually going to make a movie out of all those stori