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...
Here’s something you may not know about me: I am a massive Godzilla fan. From the age of three, I’ve loved the apathetic city-destroyer who is both humanity’s biggest threat and greatest ally. And as I grew older, and saw the original Gojira, I...
In 2014, Jennifer Kent exploded onto the scene with the moody, intelligent horror film The Babadook. Critics have debated for half a decade now if Kent’s follow-up would manage to propel her into the awards race. With news out of the 75th Venice...
Last month, six studios convened in Las Vegas for CinemaCon. Halfway between a major festival and a gross, crass example of commercialization, CinemaCon is an opportunity for studios to show new trailers and clips for their upcoming slate to...
Few studios have been as daring, adventurous, and brilliant as Pixar. In a little over twenty years, they have taken us to space, to the bottom of the ocean, to a world inhabited by cars, to a Parisian kitchen, and to a world inhabited by...
It’s a big week for us over here at the Sacred Wall – and not just because I turned a quarter-century old this week. I’ve had a massively successful week of movie and TV watching, in spite of the end of many of my favorite shows. I even managed...
The musical biopic is a complicated genre: oftentimes, these kinds of films put so much faith in the audience’s lazy expectations, they just throw the same clichés into the script over and over: kid’s a natural prodigy, parents don’t...
One of the most common questions posed by dumbasses on the Internet is: “In the modern “woke” age, can you even make a good comedy anymore?” My first response to this imaginary-yet-oh-so-real assh*le is, “Shut the f*ck up.” My second, more...
I hope you’ve all had a great week! Personally, I’ve been enjoying myself, although I haven’t had much time for movie watching. In fact, I only managed to see two films for review, one of which you can read right here, the other which will go...
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