Many years ago, when I was working on spec scripts for my portfolio, I struggled tirelessly on this one nugget of an idea I couldn’t quite crack. The idea was to make a traditional Sundance indie film, with arguing characters and long-buried...
I was about 95% right in my predictions going into Hubie Halloween, the newest Adam Sandler joint on Netflix. I knew he would talk in a stupid voice for the duration of the film. I knew that fart jokes and scat jokes would make up the bulk of the...
It is about time we start seriously considering the possibility that Sofia Coppola is a better director (or at the very least, a more identifiable auteur) than her iconic father. Sure, Francis Ford gave us The Godfather Trilogy and The...
The worst thing you can see when beginning a documentary nowadays is the logo for CNN Films. With the exception of Apollo 11, every documentary they’ve released – from Blackfish to Three Identical Strangers to The Reagan Show to RBG – has...
Sigh. So this is what we’ve come to, huh, Internet? This is the film we want to fight over? Earlier this year, a French film titled Mignonnes, translated to Cuties, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to a general round of reviews best...
As long as art has existed, artists have tried to use the visual medium as a means of showing audiences what it looks like inside the mind of severe depression. From Van Gogh to Next to Normal, we have always seen artists trying to use their own...
It’s completely understandable if the first thing you think of when reading Babyteeth’s plot synopsis is The Fault In Our Stars. They do, after all, possess similar stories – a young girl with a serious-bordering-on-terminal disease finds a first...
I wasn’t going to watch Impractical Jokers: The Movie. I actually intentionally skipped it during its short-lived theatrical run. I have not seen the show. I never plan on seeing the show. The extent of my knowledge is that they have an...
They simply don’t make films like Unhinged anymore. I don’t say that as a good thing, and I don’t say it as a bad thing. After a significant downturn in the early 2000s (clearly the death of modern cinema), the low-to-mid budget horror thriller...
Jon Stewart left his beloved show five years ago, and since then there’s been no one to cut through the bullsh*t. We’ve witnessed this country go farther divided than any point in the last fifty years, bolstered by a media that feeds off that...
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: the best weapon a horror film can possess is a clear sense of dramatic irony. From Psycho to Halloween to It Follows, the best horror films work not because of cheap amusement park jump...
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...
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