[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, October 16th, 2026. 1) KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS There is something wonderfully insane about the fact that one of the most interesting new theatrical releases of the week is a 55-year-old movie that was censored

[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, October 9th, 2026. 1) THE SOCIAL RECKONING If you've ever wondered exactly how much David Fincher had to do with the greatness of The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin has finally provided us with an answer. Everythi

[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, October 2nd, 2026. 1) DIGGER Digger is a very difficult movie to review. Not because I don't know what I think about it. I know exactly what I think about it. I think it is extraordinary. The problem is that abo

[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, September 25th, 2026. 1) HEART OF THE BEAST Heart of the Beast is what you might call an absolute crowd pleaser. This is one of those movies that has been constructed almost scientifically to make a theater full

[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, September 18th, 2026. 1) RESIDENT EVIL I dreaded going into the press screening of the new Resident Evil, and there were several reasons for that. First of all, I have never played a Resident Evil video game. 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 five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, September 11th, 2026. 1) PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 I should probably admit right up front that I am definitely not the audience for Practical Magic 2, because I hated the original Practical Magic when it came out in 199