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...
I’m beginning to think that Ryan Coogler can do no wrong. No matter what kind of film he’s making, he manages to combine an intellectually complex story with vibrant filmmaking techniques. He did it in 2013 with his low-budget true-life tragedy...
Sometimes it actually pays for a movie to embrace its “stupidity.” I don’t mean it needs to make bad decisions – I just mean that films that are light on plot can make up a lot of ground by just throwing their hands in the air and saying “Ok...
This is a Venn Diagram about films. On your left are movies I like. On your right are movies that feature a man riding an elephant through the streets of New York to make it to his daughters’ ballet recital on time. In the middle, inexplicably...
At a certain point, Steven Spielberg gave up on trying to be the most innovative filmmaker alive. Oh, I’m not saying he’s a bad director now – he’s always been great at executing simple stories well told. I just mean that he used to feel...
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