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Multi-hyphenate theatermaker James Ijames, courtesy of the artist.
My Washington City Paper feature about Good Bones, Studio Theatre’s new world premiere from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award nominated playwright and actor James Ijames is here.
Repast is Prologue: Nathan Lane, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Ryan in Ari Aster’s new mindbender. (A24)
I haven’t seen a movie this wild since Darren Aronofksy’s mother! (sic), a film that came with its own exclamation point. My Washington City Paper review of Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid is here.
Viola Davis was Michael Jordan’s handpicked choice to play his mother in Ben Affleck’s Air. (Amazon)
My review of Air, Ben Affleck’s movie from first-timer Alex Convery’s screenplay, is here.
The 1991-2 production of Alien 3 was by all accounts more of a slog than this photo of Sigourney Weaver and her tall, dark plus-one would suggest.
Here’s a Smithsonian piece wherein I put my lifelong independent study of xenobiology to good use by documenting curator Ryan Lintelman’s quest to sleuth out exactly which ALIEN flick the big prop egg in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. It’s not the first time I’ve recounted the tortured history of of Alien 3, a less imaginative exponent of the visual and thematic ideas that had made the first two pictures in the slime-dripping series so widely admired.
Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yuen in John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate).
John Wick: Chapter 4 looks great, goes on forever, and ends with dudes facing off with archaic single-shot dueling pistols at dawn. It's Barry Lyndon: Chapter 2 — Parabellum, basically. 169 minutes. More is less... says the guy who saw Avatar: The Way of Water more than once.
My Washington City Paper review is here.
Director/star Michael B. Jordan confers with Jonathan Majors on the set of Creed III. (Eli Ade/MGM)
I was glad to join Aisha Harris and Shamira Ibrahim — and to reunite with Gene Demby from the Creed II episode of PCHH back in 2018 — for this hard-hitting dissection of the disappointing-to-me Creed III.
My review of the film is here, and the Smithsonian piece I plugged in the Happy segment is here.
Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan in the Jordan-directed sequel Creed III. (MGM)
I go into a Creed sequel hoping for another Creed or Rocky Balboa but perfectly willing to accept a Rocky III or a Creed II. Creed III is... well, better than Rocky V, but dang. I'm so disappointed.
Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault are just a pair of middle-aged folks getting to know one another.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is the Ocean’s 13 of Magic Mike flicks. My Washington City Paper review of the new three-quel is here.
