by Josh Terry | Mar 21, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (3 stars out of 4) Made in Zambia by director Rungano Nyoni, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a compelling if deceptive exploration of culture and family dynamics. The film opens late at night as the protagonist, a young woman named Shula...
by Josh Terry | Mar 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Black Bag (3 ½ stars out of 4) When you break it down, Steven Soderbergh’s “Black Bag” becomes a bizarre recipe of pop culture elements: start with a “Mission: Impossible”-style save the world premise, but set it inside a British Intelligence internal subculture that...
by Josh Terry | Feb 14, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Captain America: Brave New World (2 stars out of 4) It’s a given with Marvel productions these days that if you want to understand the latest release, you need to be familiar with half a dozen previous offerings. Julius Onah’s “Captain America: Brave New World” stays...
by Josh Terry | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
Wolf Man (2 stars out of 4) In January of 2013, once I became a weekly film critic, I started to notice the patterns inherent to my new job. For example, one of the first movies I covered that year was a horror film called, “Mama.” I remember very little about the...
by Josh Terry | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, FrontPage, Reviews
September 5 (3 1/2 stars out of 4) Earlier this year, “Civil War” used a group of photojournalists to explore a nightmare future where ideological tensions boiled over into organized warfare on a national scale. In “September 5,” director Tim Fehlbaum uses a group of...
