Dual Film Reviews for Northern Express Published August 5, 2023 Unless you’ve been vacationing disconnected from all media, you might already be over the endless #Barbenheimer memes, cos-posts, and “have you seen it yet!?” hoopla. But I sincerely hope not. That’s because taken together or separately, the new films Barbie…

Film Review for Northern Express Published July 22, 2023 Should you choose to accept the invitation, before you rush out to see the latest and seventh installment of Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible franchise, it will be important to clear your schedule for the 2 hour and 43 minute film (and…

Film Review for Northern Express Published July 8, 2023 While the conventions of a play-within-a-play or a film-within-a-film are well known and explored, Wes Anderson’s delightful desert romp Asteroid City is neither, but something new — a film within a play? A Greek tragedy within a government amusement park? An…

Film Review for Northern Express Published June 24, 2023 Not many people get to experience the God-like feeling of creating your own universe (or multiverse as it became), but that’s exactly what happened to young Stanley Martin Lieber when he unexpectedly found himself running a comic book empire at the…

Film Review for Northern Express Published June 10, 2023 From the first visually hypnotizing frames and pulsing tones of the opening overture, the epic follow-up Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had me so entirely spellbound and emotionally engaged that it may have made me believe again there is a reason to…

Film Review for Northern Express Published May 27, 2023 The idea that you can become bolder, more creative, and more daring as you enter your last phase of life may seem counterintuitive, but 72 year old environmental advocate Kristine ‘Kris’ Tompkins shows us it’s possible in the new documentary Wild…

Film Review for the Northern Express Published May 13, 2023 As another Earth Day celebration has recently come and gone (leaving our only known inhabitable world in arguably an even worse climate crisis than the one that began the 1970’s environmental holiday in the first place), this critic found himself…

Film Review for Northern Express Published April 29, 2023 In the 1980s’ money for nothing world where they couldn’t give their kicks away for free, the proposition of throwing all their corporate soles into a single basket with a single basketball endorsement to one player sounded crazy even to rebel…

Film Review for Northern Express Published April 15, 2023 You may not know it, but we live in a sort of mini pinball mecca here in NoMi — with a vibrant underground culture of players and pinheads, tournaments, and cool arcades showcasing the full range of classic to contemporary machines…