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One From the Heart
Vegas lounge act with magic and Tom Waits music burdened by dull excess
Apr 14 • Joe Valdez
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Gripping documentary of a wife following her artist husband onto the ledge
Apr 7 • Joe Valdez

March 2026

Conan the Barbarian (1982)
A star is born with Arnold in splashy, crowd-pleasing spectacle
Mar 31 • Joe Valdez
Krull
Enjoyable swashbuckling space fantasy a mixed bag of RPG dice
Mar 24 • Joe Valdez
Willow
Val Kilmer & Joanne Whalley as swashbuckling power couple in contrived fantasy
Mar 17 • Joe Valdez
Legend (1985)
Visually spectacular, textually poor faerie tale improved by director's cut
Mar 13 • Joe Valdez
Highlander (1986) at 40
Worst movie to ever launch a franchise gets halfway to greatness
Mar 3 • Joe Valdez

February 2026

Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chevy Chase stars in slick, unsympathetic take on being unseen
Feb 24 • Joe Valdez
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Last hurrah of the adventuring '80s suburban teen is pure innocent fun
Feb 17 • Joe Valdez
Nine ½ Weeks at 40
American made/ European financed erotic drama hosed into submission
Feb 10 • Joe Valdez
The King of Comedy
Robert DeNiro hits career peak in timeless dark comedy on celeb obsession
Feb 3 • Joe Valdez

January 2026

Fandango
Post-grad road trip an ambitious, faulty mix of action and poetry
Jan 27 • Joe Valdez
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