One of the most egregious failures in modern cinema is the utter failing of Jane Campion. Her 1993 film The Piano is widely considered one of the great landmarks of the last 30 years, her 2003 thriller In The Cut an underrated masterpiece, and...
Daniel Craig has, for many fans, been one of the best James Bonds to date – if not the best. After giving the series a then-much needed face-lift in 2006’s Casino Royale, Craig has taken fans on a roller coaster’s journey of high highs (Skyfall)...
Jonathan Larson remains the hero of theater kids everywhere, even twenty-five years after his death. Obviously, Rent, the show he died making, became a cultural phenomenon and household name. But to the hardcore theater nerds, it was his one-man...
Something that doesn’t really exist anymore, for a whole litany of reasons, is the downer satire. I’m talking about a film filled with righteous anger and passion, as if to say “Open your f*cking eyes, people. The entire system is broken.” The...
If, like either Kenneth Branagh or his cinematic counterpart Buddy, you spend your time studying and devouring cinema, you’ll instantly see the history of film in Belfast, the legendary director’s autobiography. You’ll see The 400 Blows, and How...
There’s an old-fashioned elegance to actress Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut Passing. Based on the then-scandalous 1920s novella by Nella Larsen, Passing tackles a cornucopia of issues that still seem pertinent today: race, class, sexuality, and...
I wasn’t the world’s biggest fan of Free Solo, the Oscar-winning previous film by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. While it was undeniably a fantastical feat of filmmaking and physical performance, my biggest takeaway was “Wow, Alex...
When was the last time we had a fun Western? While the genre has always been a place to test the will of Man against the forces of nature and lawlessness, it has also been a genre filled with fun and adventure. Where good fights evil, a...
Perhaps the greatest casting question of the modern age has been “Who will play Elphaba and Glinda in the Wicked movie?” Greenlit on and off for the last fifteen years (pretty much since the show premiered on Broadway), almost every name in...
As Sacred Walloween comes to a close, I look back on my five years running this site, and I’ve realized something. For the most part, my lists – both for Sacred Walloween and beyond – have focused on the “best” films in any given genre or...
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a film so blatantly trying to copy Quentin Tarantino. After Pulp Fiction made it big, we had almost a decade of bad films trying to be quippy while some violent action takes place, before these knockoffs...
I think it’s finally happened folks. While Pixar has had bad trailers before, its hit and miss ratio is pretty stupendous. Even the lesser films like Brave and Monsters University had tiny glimmers of promise. But as we receive the trailer for...
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