Movies & FilmFriday Flicks: Gus Van Sant Returns with a ’70s-Toned Winner
M.V. MoorheadJanuary 16, 2026
The strange, sad episode is dramatized in Dead Man’s Wire by Gus Van Sant, from a script by Austin Kolodney.
Movies & FilmVirtual Screenings, Space Fiddlers and More at the Tucson J International Film Festival
M.V. MoorheadJanuary 9, 2026
In this slow post-holiday movie season, a film buff road trip may be in order. The Tucson J International Film Festival kicks off this week at the Tucson Jewish Community Center and other area venues, and continues through Sunday, January 18.
The PHiXFriday Flicks: Farewell 2025 – Top 10 Movies from an Interesting Year
M.V. MoorheadDecember 31, 2025
“May you live in interesting times” is supposedly an ancient Chinese curse. Well, 2025 has unquestionably been an interesting year. A curse that may be in real life, but this was also an interesting year in movies, and that’s less accursed. So, let’s get ’25, and the first quarter of the 21st century, in the rear view with that traditional annual movie-critic indulgence, the Top 10 List. Here are the 10 movies that...
Song Sung Blue It would be hard, for me at least, not to like Song Sung Blue, a jukebox musical about love and family set against the backdrop of working-class show business. It’s based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, small-potatoes entertainers who launched a Neil Diamond tribute act together they called Lightning & Thunder in Milwaukee in the ’90s. Charismatic performers, they built their own regional following, eventually packing houses, playing...
The PHiXFriday Flicks: Chalamet Stars in Madcap Midcentury Epic ‘Marty Supreme’
M.V. MoorheadDecember 23, 2025
The Marty in Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser, a Lower East Side kid in the early ’50s. The supremacy in question is at – of all things – table tennis, or ping-pong. He is already an insolently prodigal talent at the sport, with designs on becoming a world champ. Marty himself wouldn’t limit his supremacy merely to table tennis; he’s already intolerably cocksure about his ability to do pretty much anything he wants. Even though he could,...