A Quiet Place is one of those special horror films that wants to change the game with its filmmaking prowess. Like Cat People, Halloween, Hush, and Suspiria before it, John Krasinski’s family drama-horror uses an elevated, innovative filmmaking...
Last week was pretty quiet across the board as I did my best to review the many decent films in theaters right now. I’m still finishing The Death of Stalin from a few weeks ago, and that should be up soon, but before that will be my review for A...
The sex comedy is something of a right of passage for each generation. From the raunchiness of the 1980s with Porky’s and Risky Business to the one-upsmanship and character-based laughs of American Pie and Superbad, the subgenre spans from the...
It’s hard making a film about the concept of the “friendzone” these days. While originally an innocuous term to describe a gender-neutral unrequited love, the term has been co-opted by the MRA and Alt-Right, who use it as a defense of their “that...
It’s been a varied past few weeks. Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to write much this past week; it’s been a pretty wild few days. In these past two weeks, I saw three films for review: When We First Met, The Death of Stalin, and Blockers...
It would be pointless to try to predict Best Picture without immediately taking a look at Best Director. After all, the two are often tied hand-in-hand – and while the past nine years under the preferential ballot have only boasted a 55% match...
It’s hard not to trace every significant comedic achievement of the past fifty years to the work of the National Lampoon. Not only was their work influential, subversive, and transgressive, almost everyone they touched went on to change the...
March is something of a dry spell for movies in theaters. I’m going to try to spice things up this week with some Netflix reviews, like A Futile and Stupid Gesture, but in the meantime, I’ve been focused on fleshing out my...
The Oscars are officially a week old, which means it’s time for one thing, and one thing only: the early predictions for the 91st Academy Awards! Wait, come back, where are you going?!? Yes, I’m well aware that you are still detoxing from last...
Now that the Oscar race is over, and things have settled down, I want to take some time to look back at the Sundance Film Festival. You may have seen reports that this year’s festival was a bit muted, with several critics and studios saying that...
The Oscar race is over, life has started to settle into a pattern, and everyone, including me, has started returning to their everyday activities. However, that doesn’t mean I’ve gone without seeing any movies, with a few at home while working...
It appears that Disney has realized that as big as Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book were, they can’t just rehash the same story and hope the fans show up. I say this because their next two films, both of which have had trailers drop this...
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