Film: “Don’t Look Up”

Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” is sometimes kinda fun, sometimes awful, but it leaves you in a good enough frame of mind to accept its somewhat benign and warm view of human nature. And I respect it for making that pov extremely difficult for the audience to accept, especially after what they’ve seen. At the […]

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Film: “Sausage Party”

Cartoon satire, especially as a feature film, is risky. Audiences expect cartoons to be family-friendly, and there are few cartoon feature films that appealed to adult moviegoers looking for sharp, funny, downright dirty entertainment. But it’s happened, and the filmmakers were admired for the risks they took. Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz The Cat was just such […]

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