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KMUW's Fletcher Powell marks the 25th anniversary of a movie that kicked off a pair of enormous careers. -
Everybody knows that when you make a mixtape, you gotta kick it off with a killer track, to grab attention. The organizers of last winter’s Sundance Film…
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Today’s moviegoers are savvy enough that filmmakers have to know they’re going to pick up on similarities between new movies and what’s come out in years… -
This review originally ran as part of Fletcher Powell's 2021 Sundance Film Festival coverage. The Sparks Brothers is now in theaters.Pssst...Hey, over…
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Over the years, I’ve come to place less importance on subtlety in art. There was a time when I saw it almost as a virtue unto itself-- I felt like if you…
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How’s this for a pitch—three guys sort of like the conspiracy-minded, tech-savvy trio from The X-Files known as the “Lone Gunmen” team up with a guy sort…
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The New York Times had an article recently about how because American movie release dates keep getting pushed further and further back, there’s been a…
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Just by coincidence, I’ve found myself watching a surprising number of movies from 1971 lately, way more than I’d expect without doing it on purpose.…
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There’s a kind of movie we all know well—I’ll call it a “quest” comedy—where something causes our heroes to venture out to find something or someone, and…
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I’m going to do something now that basically no one should ever do, which is to say I’m going to review a movie I technically haven’t seen all of. It’s…
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I’ve found myself watching a fair bit of Columbo lately. Yep, that Columbo, rumpled Peter Falk shuffling around solving murders. It’s perfect comfort…
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As I watched Jason Statham take the elevator down at the end of Guy Ritchie’s bleak new crime film Wrath of Man, I thought of another movie-ending…
