Movie Review

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that explore the relationship between parent and child.

Blue Moon is Richard Linklater’s second feature this year, a portrait of the troubled lyricist Lorenz Hart. Nathan Weinbender says it’s not a great Linklater film, but it does have a great Ethan Hawke performance in it.

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: It’s an odd title and an odd movie. Nathan Weinbender says this polarizing, anxiety-inducing film, now available for digital rental, is a daring showcase for Rose Byrne.

The dystopian thriller "The Running Man" has been brought into the present day by director Edgar Wright and star Glen Powell. Nathan Weinbender says it’s an uneven, overlong action-comedy blockbuster.

In The Mastermind, Josh O’Connor is a 1970s family man who briefly moonlights as an art thief. Nathan Weinbender says this quiet, low-key drama is one of director Kelly Reichardt’s best.

Rebecca Miller’s 5-part Apple TV series “Mr. Scorsese” is an entertaining crash course in the revered director’s work. It may be preaching to the converted, Nathan Weinbender says, but the women in Scorsese’s life offer some fresh insights.

What scares you about on-screen villains may say a lot about you, says Dan Webster.

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is an intense post-Cold War thriller—until it’s not, says Dan Webster.

On this week's show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss two films that feature characters on quests for something that, at least tangentially, involves happiness. The first is "The History of Sound," starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, and the second is the French import, "Souleymane's Story."

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss two movies that incorporate violence, or references to it, at their very core. The first is the aptly titled “The Smashing Machine,” in which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays the real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The other is “Anemone,” a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man tortured by memories of war.