[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 seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 28th, 2026. 1) COYOTE VS. ACME Like so many people, I grew up on Looney Tunes. I watched them constantly on television as a kid in the '70s, saw many of those cartoons in theaters, and those characters b

[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 five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 21st, 2026. 1) INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER For about the past 15 years, we have been inundated with a particular kind of supernatural horror movie, many of them somehow connected to James Wan, Leigh Wha

[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 six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 14th, 2026. 1) TONY “I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking.” - Anthony Bourdain "Kitchen Confident

[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 three new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 7th, 2026. 1) SUPER TROOPERS 3 The comedy troupe Broken Lizard has been around since the early ’90s, when the guys met at Colgate University, started performing together onstage, and eventually developed

[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 three new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, July 31st, 2026. 1) SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY Whenever I review a comic book movie, I feel obligated to begin with the same disclaimer: I am not a comic book guy. I never grew up reading them, I do not follow t

[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 three new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, July 24th, 2026. 1) HER PRIVATE HELL Nicolas Winding Refn has become one of the most polarizing filmmakers working today, and I completely understand why. Early in his career, with the gritty, brutally realisti