There’s an old adage when it comes to adapting short stories: keep it simple, stupid. Short stories work because of the purity of their vision: no flowery prose, no excessive world-building. Just a great story, get in, get out, boom. However...
It’s nice to know, in real time, that Gen-Z’s going to be alright. Despite all the hair-pulling and screaming about the death of art in the modern world (mostly by Boomers), there’s been a steady rise of artists under 25 tackling real-world...
The Sacred Wall is currently on vacation, and because of this, we won’t be covering the 75th Tony Awards live. I will be back to recap the nominations and performances sometime tomorrow, and until then, you can see my predictions below. The 75th...
Despite their claims to the contrary, it is becoming more glaringly apparent with each film that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is made by committee. While the directors have control over stylistic flourishes, and may have some input in the story...
We live in a strange age in our relationship to art. While pushback on sex scenes is at an all-time high, historically, there’s less sex on camera than there’s been since the 1950s. This paradox is one of many reasons Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure...
If Mad Max: Fury Road did one thing right for the film industry (other than set the bar for all action films to come in the next seven years – a bar that has yet to be met), it’s that it earned George Miller carte blanche. Despite a litany of...
I’ve seen a lot of things since I officially started covering the Oscar race six years ago. I’ve seen Netflix spend hundreds of millions of dollars only to sabotage their own campaigns. I’ve seen actors stick their own foot in their mouth and...
A Cronenberg picture always dares you to guess what the film’s about. Critics and scholars will bend over backward trying to analyze his nasty little films, parsing for meanings that are almost certainly intended, including man’s toxic...
Can an ending completely save a film? That’s the question I found myself asking coming out of Watcher, the directorial debut of acclaimed short film director Chloe Okuno. With a catchy hook reminiscent of the early films of Polanski and Argento...
It takes a skilled hand to make something truly terrifying a laughingstock. It has to raise serious questions and shine a light on the subject while simultaneously taking the complete piss out of it. In Emergency, Carey Williams adapts his own...
It’s hard to say why animated adaptations of beloved television shows are the only ones to ever succeed. Maybe it’s because animation is a more delightful art form. Maybe it’s because it’s easier to keep original casts around a lot longer...
I openly consider Top Gun one of the greatest action films of all time. Actually, that’s an understatement – at one point, it was listed as one of my greatest films of all time. It’s the platonic ideal of what an action film should be – stars so...
Ancora © 2016 All Rights Reserved Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
