2025

Tron: Ares is the third Tron movie. It’s also, unfortunately, the third mediocre Tron movie. What an interesting sort-of franchise Tron is!  I have a lot of fondness in my heart for the original 1984 Tron.  Steven Lisberger’s film was incredibly innovative and influential. 

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The Long Walk adapts the novel by Stephen King (written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979).  Set in a world in which the United States has suffered economic collapse and is ruled by a fascistic military government, the film depicts the annual televised competition called Th

Alien and Aliens are two of my all-time favorite movies.  I’ve seen them both dozens of times.  I love them deeply!  I’m always game for a new Alien project, though over the years I have been disappointed far more than not. Alien: Earth felt to me like an intriguing pro

Caught Stealing is set in New York City in 1998; Hank (Austin Butler) is living a happy life as a jovial, somewhat unreliable, slightly alcoholic bartender.  He’s in an on-the-edge-of-becoming-serious relationship with a paramedic named Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz).  But Hank’s