Michael Morano

Film Review: “HIM” — A Carpet Bombing of the Optic Nerve

September 19, 2025
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“HIM” works incredibly well as a Grotesque, and by that I mean the film takes the incipient, creepy ideologies of pro football and blows them up to terrifying and absurd proportions.

Film Review: “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” — The Best Ever

July 9, 2023
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The acts of reinvention in “Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning Part One” are revelatory, object lessons for how all future summer sequels can be written.

Film Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” — Payback’s a Bitch

April 29, 2023
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Armed with a quarter of a billion dollars from the people who chucked him to the MAGA wolves, director James Gunn has created one of the most mean-spirited and nasty movies to have come down the pike since Straw Dogs.

Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Consumers Consuming Themselves

January 28, 2023
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In Infinity Pool, people who are dead inside essentially play with their own corpses as shiny, new toys. The savagery of that idea is, simply, delicious.

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