Horror may, in fact, be the hardest genre to pull off. There are so many ways a film can go wrong and so few for it to go right. You need to maintain the atmosphere, balance the story, create characters the audience cares about, use every aspect...
There’s a certain lack of risk that exists in modern day filmmaking. Where once films like Taxi Driver, Chinatown, and Bonnie and Clyde told daring stories where the graphic content was paired perfectly with emotional weight and consequence and...
Avengers: Infinity War is the culmination of ten years and twenty movies. It is the product of several years of planning, three brain children (four if you count a pair of brothers), and massive amounts of hype. In fact, as this arc has been...
If you’ve been following this site since the beginning, you’d know that one of my favorite genres is the satire. You’ll have read of my love for Dr. Strangelove and Get Out, and last year you’ll have seen me tear apart both Kingsman and...
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...
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 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...
Watching Fifty Shades Freed felt like the scene with the dead dove in Arrested Development. There was no outcome where this was a good film, and there was no outcome where I would enjoy sitting through this film. I was already filled with regret...
In almost all respects, Love, Simon feels about fifteen years too late. It’s version of a high school film feels very early aughts, its handling of gay romance and everything that goes with it feels early aughts, and the cheesiness feels early...
There’s nothing more disappointing than when a film with a lot of promise ends up disappointing you. After making the intelligent, provocative Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s adaptation of the best-selling novel Annihilation could have been a...
The short films are the red-headed bastard child of the Academy Awards to many people. They are incredibly difficult to see, the people who vote for them are a complete mystery, and the final results are pretty much chance, meaning they are...
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