As we officially enter the summer movie season, I’m doing my best to keep up-to-speed on both the big-budget blockbusters (even if they fail) and the small indie films. This week, I managed to head out to the theatres twice, taking in one of each...
Comedy has been an outlet for the major issues of the day going all the way back to the 30s. In particular, women in the workplace has always been a subject ripe for satire, thanks to the condescension, harassment, and sexism they face on a...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us has become a cultural talking point around the country. The story of the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino children sentenced to years in jail and lambasted by prosecutors, the press, and a certain...
When I first sat down for The Dead Don’t Die, the “zombie comedy” by legendary arthouse director Jim Jarmusch, I was not expecting much. I’d been lukewarm on Jarmusch’s previous efforts Dead Man and Only Lovers Left Alive (the only Jarmusch films...
Never bet against the sweep, folks! In a Tonys ceremony dominated by strong performances, endearing speeches, fun hosting, and the worst damn production team I’ve ever seen, eventual (expected) winners The Ferryman and Hadestown ran the table...
It’s that time of year again folks! The 73rd Annual Tony Awards, aka The Super Bowl for all the geeky little drama kids about to get slushied during free period. I’ll be updating the winners in real time below, with winners marked...
It’s been a slow week of viewings over at the Sacred Wall. While I did manage to post an impressive amount of articles for you all during this time, the lack of great movies in theatres and a hectic work schedule kept me from getting to the...
This Sunday, the 73rd Annual Tony Awards will be presenting an entire slew of new plays and musicals awards, inviting them to join the pantheon of great shows like Hamilton, Spring Awakening, The Music Man, and Les Misérables. So as we count down...
James Mangold has been one of the most underrated filmmakers of the past twenty years. Delivering stealthily great films like Cop Land and 3:10 To Yuma, and funding these efforts with weighty blockbusters like Logan and Walk The Line, even his...
Last year, the 72nd Tony Awards awarded The Band’s Visit Best Musical. In doing so, it beat out Frozen, Mean Girls, and Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical. And this year, the Best Musical category includes two frontrunners in Tootsie and...
The Kitchen may be the strangest project coming out in 2019. Similar in plot to last year’s fabulous Widows, and based on a beloved graphic novel of the same name, The Kitchen has chosen to fill its gritty crime epic with popular comedic...
You can always count on Sylvester Stallone to create a great character and then immediately misunderstand why audiences liked his creation. For example, Rocky was a terrific underdog story that eventually culminated in the character ending the...
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