It’s been three years since Martin Scorsese last regaled us with one of his event films. The last of a certain kind of 70s auteur (along with Steven Spielberg, obviously), when Scorsese makes a film, you pay attention. And fresh off the news that...
Every once in a while, a project comes along that’s just so weird in all the right ways that it forces you to do a double take. It’s not exactly that it’s bad or even that outlandish. It’s just such an assortment of words and phrases that don’t...
Best Picture has always been tied closely to Best Actor, but I would posit that Best Actress has been the more exciting race in recent years. Outside of Frances McDormand dominating the 2017 season, recent years have introduced Brie Larson vs...
Last Tuesday, festival season officially kicked off with the announcement of the Toronto International Film Festival lineup. Now, less than a week later, Venice has fallen suit, ready to announce who will follow in the footsteps of past winners...
Last week, I revealed that Amy Adams’ The Woman In The Window had been bumped from the Oscar race, leaving a wide-open path in several categories. I also hinted at the time that I was hearing word of a new contender that may sneak into the race...
Happy Sunday, everybody! I’m writing to you on vacation, so I’m too busy for a full write-up, but that’s not going to stop me from getting a What I Watched, What You Watched for the week! I only saw one new film for review, Quentin Tarantino’s...
One of the things that makes Quentin Tarantino a great director – indeed, I would argue the key to making him a great director – is his ability to blend a history of the old with something completely new. By throwing back to genres and influences...
One of the stealth best films of the fall of 2009 was Zombieland. A parody of zombie films before they became done to death, starring a bunch of then-mostly unknowns in Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone, and featuring an...
Last Sunday, Big Little Lies concluded its second, and potentially final season. It was a season that should not have happened – they had completed the book in the first miniseries, the A-list actresses all had new projects lined up, and there...
One of the greatest untold stories in United States cinematic history, far and away, is that of Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped at the age of 27, returned 13 times to rescue over 70 people, recruited men for John Brown’s raid on...
Taika Waititi is perhaps the best, most underrated director in Hollywood at the moment. His last three films, What We Do In The Shadows, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Thor: Ragnarok are amongst the best of the decade, changing the game in the...
Natural horror is both the best and worst subgenre in existence. On the one hand, it’s a cheap way to elicit thrills, often relying on jump scares and fake outs to make an audience scream on cue like the puppets they are. On the other hand, they...
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