Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t take any risks to upend its story. It’s perfectly content telling a Hallmark-esque classical rom-com/chick flick to the best of its abilities. It knows exactly who it is for. It’s for your mom, who enjoys a good Saturday...
The loss of innocence and the revitalization of life is one of the oldest and most beloved tales in Western mythology. From It to The Little Prince, from It’s a Wonderful Life to Mary Poppins, variations on these ideas can be found etched into...
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! is a lot like the cosmo I inevitably had to buy before the film in order to get in the right mindset. The first sip is way too sweet, as if it is overcompensating for something. Then the aftertaste of the alcohol...
Everything about Eighth Grade feels like a tiny miracle. It’s a miracle that stand-up comedian Bo Burnham could make the transition to filmmaking so seamlessly. It’s a miracle that he had this insight into the mind of a thirteen-year-old girl...
Much has been made of the fact that John Travolta’s long-gestating passion project Gotti has received a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes – pitching a “perfect Bucky Larson,” if you will. Frankly, such claims are a bit misleading. I’m not saying that this is...
Mankind has a horrible tendency to tamper with forces beyond our control. Due to greed, power, and a hint of nostalgic emotion, we have a desire to prove our greatness by controlling that which is inherently uncontrollable. Sometimes it is best...
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...
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