Earlier today, someone on Twitter jokingly posted that “there’s still 12 hours for 2021 to get worse.” Evidently, this person has jinxed us, as TMZ has reported that Betty White has passed away at the age of 99, just 17 days shy of her...
Honestly, the world needs more angry comedies. Great filmmakers once made scathing satires about how the world is inherently broken, and there’s not much to be done in order to fix it. Films like Dr. Strangelove, and Citizen Kane, and Network...
Few directors can place you so firmly in their world like Paul Thomas Anderson. From Hard Eight to Phantom Thread, Anderson has explored life’s messy realities with heart and humor, whether it involves Golden Age porn stars, stoner detectives...
Merry Christmas to all of you good kiddies out there! This means it’s time once again for A Sacred Wall Christmas (The Greatest Gift Of All). This year’s Christmas selection has, unfortunately, been a little lacking. I do apologize for that...
I can think of no more of a foolhardy gesture than remaking West Side Story. I don’t care if you’re Steven Spielberg, one of the last living legends of the craft. It’s just taboo, like remaking Citizen Kane, or Ben-Hur (the latter of which was...
If there’s one thing that David Lowery is good at, it’s creating an immersive film experience. Whatever the general tone of his film may be – from the childlike innocence of Pete’s Dragon to the morose dread of A Ghost Story – Lowery creates a...
I’m not sure, as I begin to write this, how to quantify this piece on Bo Burnham’s recent special, Inside. Will it be a review? A Friday Night Dinner essay? A personal piece? I’m not entirely sure. I suppose that’s fitting, as Inside itself tends...
Aaron Sorkin has had a tough time getting Being The Ricardos to the big screen. First, there was backlash that Nicole Kidman wasn’t right for the iconic Lucille Ball, and that Javier Bardem was Spanish and a solid three feet taller than the Cuban...
It’s that time of year again. The kids are getting out of school, the in-laws are flying into town. Maybe you’re making an error of Griswaldian proportions and inviting the entire family over to your house. Who knows? But the inevitable...
The reason a superhero movie works is relatively simple: it finds the best aspects of our morality, and it amplifies it on a massive scale. Because there are so many Marvel movies at this point (indeed, an industry-crushing amount), this message...
In 2016, Pablo Larraín released Jackie, a deep psychological exploration of fame, power, and the creation of myths involving one of the United States’ most famous First Ladies. It was an acting tour-du-force, brilliant and insightful and...
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