With the days of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games long behind us, studios have been scrambling to capture the audiences that once religiously turned out every few years for a fantastical adventure filled with magic, wonder, and a couple of...
Once upon a time, there was a filmmaker named Sidney Lumet, who famously found new ways to create cinema by tackling hefty thematic material through smart, claustrophobic character studies. Through his glimpses inside the minds of cinema’s...
As American culture began to accept the premise that modestly successful 90s rom-com Groundhog Day was, in fact, a modern cinematic classic, culture began finding ways to recycle the novel concept of the “time loop” in new and exciting ways. From...
Does Rosamund Pike need to fire her agent? I pose this question as a hypothetical, but there is a good deal of evidence that she should rethink her current situation. After taking the world by storm with her groundbreaking turn in Gone Girl, Pike...
Ed. Note: The following is my review of Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, a film I never had a chance to review, but desperately wanted to. After all, every film on my Top Ten list deserves a review, as far as I’m concerned. And Little Women is no...
Ed. Note: With movie theaters still closed around the country in further notice, I thought I’d go through my notebook and see what films I’d planned to write about and never gotten around to reviewing, either due to other films I...
They say great art comes from great pain. And if there is any merit to that quotation, then Pete Davidson should be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. At the age of seven, his father died tragically saving lives as a firefighter during...
When was the last time a director had the courage to attempt a full-scale epic? The kind of sweeping, hours-long story that the legendary directors of old – the David Leans, the Akira Kurosawas, the William Wylers, etc. – would attempt to cement...
Ed. Note: The following is my unpublished review of Just Mercy, a very good little film from January. While I wasn’t planning on publishing it, the fact it is available to rent for free on most streaming services in response to the recent...
In an era where IP and cookie-cutter formulas are becoming ever-more present, it’s always refreshing to see someone with as clear a vision as Benny and Josh Safdie. While their previous films (Good Time in particular) have been relatively cold...
I’ve written multiple times on this site that my favorite type of documentary are the ones where they set out with one plan in mind, only to uncover something greater along the way. The way 2016’s Tickled set out to investigate a weird message...
It may come as a massive shock to you all, but I am a massive Frozen fan. I saw the animated blockbuster five times in theaters, and will never forget the magic of seeing Disney return to its roots with a good old-fashioned musical extravaganza...
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