Perhaps the worst thing you can say about a film or filmmaker is that they remind you of someone or something else. While it is possible to receive praise for resembling or evoking a contemporary, if you resemble another filmmaker, then by...
There’s an old adage when it comes to adapting short stories: keep it simple, stupid. Short stories work because of the purity of their vision: no flowery prose, no excessive world-building. Just a great story, get in, get out, boom. However...
It’s nice to know, in real time, that Gen-Z’s going to be alright. Despite all the hair-pulling and screaming about the death of art in the modern world (mostly by Boomers), there’s been a steady rise of artists under 25 tackling real-world...
Despite their claims to the contrary, it is becoming more glaringly apparent with each film that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is made by committee. While the directors have control over stylistic flourishes, and may have some input in the story...
We live in a strange age in our relationship to art. While pushback on sex scenes is at an all-time high, historically, there’s less sex on camera than there’s been since the 1950s. This paradox is one of many reasons Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure...
A Cronenberg picture always dares you to guess what the film’s about. Critics and scholars will bend over backward trying to analyze his nasty little films, parsing for meanings that are almost certainly intended, including man’s toxic...
It takes a skilled hand to make something truly terrifying a laughingstock. It has to raise serious questions and shine a light on the subject while simultaneously taking the complete piss out of it. In Emergency, Carey Williams adapts his own...
It’s hard to say why animated adaptations of beloved television shows are the only ones to ever succeed. Maybe it’s because animation is a more delightful art form. Maybe it’s because it’s easier to keep original casts around a lot longer...
I openly consider Top Gun one of the greatest action films of all time. Actually, that’s an understatement – at one point, it was listed as one of my greatest films of all time. It’s the platonic ideal of what an action film should be – stars so...
In a period in film history where studios seem to play things safer and safer with each outing, there’s an innate desire to praise Big Swings – films that grapple with the nature of existence in new and challenging ways. Take, for instance, Goran...
There’s a common sentiment I’ve shared on The Sacred Wall several times before, and I will say it once again, loudly and proudly: I f*cking love Nicolas Cage. I wholeheartedly believe that the man is one of our finest living actors, playing...
A Robert Eggers picture always involves three central themes: a fascination with history, the brutality of man, and an extreme lesson in the generational passing of fanaticism. This fascination gave us Black Phillip and The VVitch. It gave us the...
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