Clint Worthington

Welcome to Right on Cue, the podcast where we interview film, TV, and video game composers about the origins and nuances of their latest works. https://open.spotify.com/episode/24g7xiE1cjdqCfgPPdvuqs?si=d69a15b532a54173 Sometimes, the dumbest things are the most delightful -- and that’s certainly the case with A24’s riotous new musical, Dicks: The Musical. A tongue-in-cheek (and other places) song-and-dance comedy, Dicks: The Musical started out as an hourlong show at the Upright Citizens Brigad…

A decade’s worth of superhero movies goes out with a big, stupid grin on its face. One would hope that a film franchise with as much money poured into it as the DC Cinematic Universe would rage, rage against the dying of the light. Yet here we are, limping towards the end of a slate of superhero flicks marred by terrible reviews (Shazam! 2), controversy (The Flash), or sheer too-little-too-late-ness (Blue Beetle). As the superhero genre continues to flag in a year of duds, DC’s set for a reinven…

The German actor opens up about the painstaking process of filming Jonathan Glazer’s perverse Nazi dollhouse, and how guilt and atrocity can eat you alive. In Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, what is out of sight is out of mind, even if it’s not out of earshot. Adapted from the Martin Amis novel, Glazer’s first feature in ten years is notable for what it doesn’t show us, or rather, what its subjects refuse to see. Set in, and focused on, the palatial home of Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel…

The latest chapter in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe makes Morbius look like a masterpiece. In an age where the Marvel Cinematic Universe has categorically lost its luster, it’s tempting to imagine how green the grass is on the other side of the hill. To imagine that someone, somewhere, is doing inventive work with some of America’s most pervasive modern myths -- without the heaving strain of an interconnected narrative, a cast of over-it actors, or visual effects teams stretched beyond their breaki…

Denis Villeneuve finishes his epic two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel with sprawling scope and thorny politics. It’s really a miracle that the first of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films penetrated the public consciousness as well as it did. It was released amid a worldwide pandemic; it was an IMAX-ready blockbuster that was simultaneously dropped onto people’s streaming subscriptions same-day; it’s based on a dense, impenetrable sci-fi novel Villeneuve patiently chose not to wholly adapt i…

The Chicago-based director of Bosnian observational doc Among Wolves sits down to talk about the film’s origins, its gripping subjects, and the specter of communal trauma. NOW STREAMING: Powered by JustWatch Welcome back to More of a Comment, Really…, a weekly interview show hosted by Clint Worthington! Every episode will feature interviews with actors, filmmakers, producers, and more, giving you the skinny on the latest films and TV. While the Bosnian War ended more than twenty years ago, its e…

SXSW has long been the fun cousin to the Sundance Film Festival -- a music and tech fest all rolled into one, set in the sun-soaked climes of Austin, TX in the springtime, rather than the stifling cold and thin air of Park City, Utah. This year’s fest left a lot to be desired, at least politically and culturally: Dozens of artists and speakers pulled out of the fest this year in protest of its sponsorship by the US military over its role in the war in Gaza, and the aggressive AI’s here, get used…

As the saying goes, only ’90s kids will remember the severe cultural impact X-Men: The Animated Series had on a particular strain of latchkey millennials. For many, the show, which ran from 1992-97 on the Fox Kids programming block, was the arguable apex of the Marvel superhero team’s on-screen representations. It was thrilling, exciting, and for the time, surprisingly mature in its handling of the sociopolitical issues that spawned the comics in the first place -- racism, xenophobia, homophobia…

It’s been four long years since Conan O’Brien has graced our television screens, ever since his late-night TBS show, Conan, ended in 2021. Since then, he’s kept busy, of course, with podcasts like Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and guest spots on shows like Murderville. But the late-night legend couldn’t possibly keep away from the limelight for long; even at the ripe age of sixty, the guy is still the same spry, lanky chaos demon he always was, a tall column of Irish awkwardness more than willing…

As the opening minutes of Roku’s The Spiderwick Chronicles is all too glad to remind us, This is a dark fairy tale. A decidedly on-the-nose sentiment to blurt out to an audience in its beginning seconds, to be sure, but that matches the vibe of the series: A lot of spells, but very little magic. The show was rescued by Roku after Disney+ cut it in 2023 after completing the series; the move was ostensibly to cut costs, part of the streaming squeeze we’re all going through as streamers start reali…