Dan Lybarger

Wolf Man

By Dan Lybarger | January 2025

I didn’t have to read the Internet Movie Database page on Wolf Man to know co-writer-director Leigh Whannell really likes David Cronenberg’s…

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I didn’t have to read the Internet Movie Database page on Wolf Man to know co-writer-director Leigh Whannell really likes David Cronenberg’s...

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It’s one thing for a movie to have a good soundtrack. It’s even better if the filmmakers know something about how music is made. One of the many...

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NOW IN THEATERS! It’s a given that any movie directed by Yorgos Lanthimos will be dark, quirky, and more than a little kinky, but the Greek director is...

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Throughout Bad Boys: Ride or Die, written by Chris Bremner and Will Beall and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, I kept asking myself, can we get...

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It's all right to populate movies with familiar types as long as they seem like flesh-and-blood people instead of commedia dell'arte masks. Fortunately,...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! Local elections can often have more impact on our daily lives than the national races that dominate the airwaves. And...

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Award This! 2023 Nominee! available on Prime Video. Perhaps the only good thing that has come from the pandemic is that people are rediscovering what makes...

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NOW ON PBS! Sometimes, the greatest tales in rock n' roll involve bands or singers who haven't made the Hall of Fame or the playlists for classic rock...

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One of the joys of watching independent films is that they often explore material that takes the major studios years to discover. For example, in "The...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! Even if your only exposure to surfing consists of humming Beach Boys songs, Maya and the Wave might make...

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