Every once in a while, a film debut hits you like a bullet. In the wake of the pandemic, the frequency of this sensation has vastly increased, as studios desperate for any amount of money are throwing a few thousand dollars at hungry first-timers...
This time every year, the Girl Scouts of America begin their campaign to entice us with sweets and make us look in the mirror with loathing for the next two weeks. I kid, I kid. Girl Scout Cookie Season is an American Spring Pastime, like...
Well, for better or worse, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is here. It’s been a hell of a journey: after one average and one outright bad entry into the superhero canon in 2013 and 2016, Zack Snyder found himself in an uphill battle to produce a...
Throughout this month, Turner Classic Movies will be hosting a series every weekend called “Reframed.” Hosted by the usual suspects of Ben Mankiewicz, Dave Karger, Alicia Malone, and especially Jacqueline Stewart, the series looks to provide the...
One of my favorite movie lines of all time comes from the 2002 film Adaptation. After hearing his brother Charlie rip apart his clichéd, ridiculously predictable crime thriller screenplay about a detective hunting for a serial killer, the...
Hello readers! Yesterday, the Academy announced their nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, naming 55 films in total to make up their nominees. Now, due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, this is the first time in history where the...
There’s a famous saying, reportedly from Josef Stalin, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” In Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian, this logic is used in an attempt to reverse-engineer sympathy, and to reignite...
I’m having a hard time exactly categorizing The Father. It is a masterful achievement, and yet a film I never necessarily want to watch again. It is a testament to great acting and editing while simultaneously feeling overbearingly staged. It is...
You cannot judge a children’s film on the same level as adult content. While some children’s content can work on an adult, artistic level (i.e. E.T., The Wizard of Oz), the only real requirements for a children’s film are to entertain for an hour...
The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards didn’t offer too much in terms of surprises, but at least we know where we stand: Mank leads the pack with ten nominations, Nomadland’s sitting pretty to win the whole damn thing, and for the first time...
It’s finally here! After many months of confusion and exhaustion over what would happen with a quarantine-set Oscar season, we finally get to see which films the Academy considers the best of the year, with the 93rd Academy...
Ten years ago this Sunday, March 14th, American culture was changed forever. While the song in question was originally released on February 10th, it wasn’t until its debut one month later, complete with a YouTube video of equal renown, that it...
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