Americana (2023)

A strange movie that reminded me of Strange Darling at times. Told slightly out of order, it's fun to see how all the pieces fit together. It's like a modern day cowboys and Indians, with a Tarantino and Coen Brothers-like influence that can be felt throughout. I enjoyed the randomness and silliness quite a bit.

3½ ghost shirts out of 5

Weapons (2025)

At 2:17am, 17 children disappear. Told in snippets from different points of view, it's best to know nothing else going in. It's a creepy little film, full of tension and frequently hilarious. It had my whole theater laughing and screaming.

3½ cans of soup out of 5

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

The real and not-at-all completely made-up story of "Weird Al" Yankovic, who rose up from humble beginnings as an accordion-playing parodist to become one of the greatest original pop icons of all-time, to the envy of other artists. 

In the same vein as Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, it skewers a lot of usual biopic tropes and goes off the rails in a big way, although it's never quite as funny as it could have been if it leaned completely into spoof territory. Once you're in on the joke, it gets hard to top itself. Daniel Radcliffe feels weirdly miscast as the lead, but it's fun to see the likes of Dr. Demento (Rainn Wilson), Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) and other famous names pop up along the way.

3 Yankovic bumps out of 5

Note: This film is so low-budget, they couldn't actually use the rights to many of Al's songs, which is inconceivable since he remains the producer on this. Maybe that's part of the joke.