Q-90.1's Movie House

We wrap up the summer by taking a look at box office winners and losers, the ongoing writers' and actors' strike, and those we lost this summer.

Chances are, in the years to come, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer will be seen as one of the director's greatest films.

The "Barbenheimer" phenomenon is fantastic news for fans of standalone movies that don't involve superheroes or extended cinematic universes, Barbie has become a fascinating cultural lightning rod (we'll get to Oppenheimer next week).

Harrison Ford returns as the whip-wielding adventurer/archaeologist for one final installment.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse captured the beauty, pathos, wonder, pacing, and structure of a comic book in ways that I hadn't even seen before on film and the sequel is as strong as the first and, in some ways, even more impressive.

I've joked for years about wanting to see a sci fi movie from Wes Anderson. With the arrival of Asteroid City, I've finally got my wish... or have I?

1984's Blood Simple is surprisingly accomplished for a first movie and absolutely has all the hallmarks of later Cohen Brothers films.

This week, I want to say a few words of praise for the small, single-screen theater.

As politicians and the 24-hour news cycle prepare for the next presidential election, one terribly underappreciated movie keeps coming to mind - 1957's A Face in the Crowd.

Until the Production Code, early motion pictures were like an unregulated Old West, but one of the films that brought an end to that era was 1933's Baby Face.

How Hollywood coped with COVID restrictions could be an ambitious grad student's dissertation some day and when it gets written, one chapter could focus on 2021's How It Ends.

Paul Schrader wrote about films that give you a "transcendent" experience, which I thought about when I watched 2022's The Wonder.

On paper, The Last Duel should have been a critical and commercial slam dunk, but the execution made for a gigantic flop.

Steven Spielberg is probably the most important filmmaker of my lifetime and his latest film, The Fabelmans, is a cinematic memoir of his own movie history.