The Goods: Film Reviews

2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the first Scream movie, as well as the release of Scream 7 and the biggest box office haul in franchise history.

Walt Disney died two weeks after this movie opened, which makes it the last film his studio put into theaters while he was alive to see it.

Dan and Brian continue “Train” month, their look at teacher and training films, by considering a slightly less wholesome teacher-student relationship, the one depicted in Whiplash.

Julia Hart spent years as a high school English teacher before she was ever a filmmaker, and Miss Stevens, her 2016 directorial debut featuring a script she co-wrote, has a lived-in specificity and angst that could only come from someone who had experienced some version of the story first-hand.

When I saw The Dark Knight in 2008, I stepped into the Airbus IMAX theater in Chantilly, Virginia