More so than any other year, it feels way too early to begin our year-end wrap-up. Yet here we are, looking down the barrel of December, and ready to start rewarding the best of pop culture in 2022. And like always, The Sacred Wall kicks off its...
Happy A Sacred Wall Christmas, everybody! Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been as festive as normal. I won’t be going into everything, but this has been a wild, complicated personal time for me, and while I managed to stay on top of reviews, it...
Months before it was released, almost from the moment it was announced, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has caused every corner of the Internet to hunker down for the impending war of takes, opinions, and causes. On the one hand, the film has been...
Can a sequel ever surpass its predecessor? It’s a question that’s plagued audiences and critics alike for decades, debating if it is indeed possible for lightning to strike twice. Personally, I’m skeptical of any sequel’s chances – it is a...
2022 has been a year marked with attempts to finally launch the gay romantic comedy on a mass scale. In many ways, this seems like too little, too late, but with states passing laws stripping away rights and talking heads praising the surging...
Has any other film or film series suffered the same level of scrutiny and misjudgment that Avatar has? Originally James Cameron’s follow-up to highest-grossing-film ever Titanic, Avatar beat the “disastrous flop” allegations to become the...
It takes sheer audacity to tackle the most popular story in Western literature. It’s borderline insanity to do so when there’s already an incredibly famous version in existence. This is the uphill climb that Guillermo del Toro faces in retelling...
In 1952, a young married couple took their eight-year-old son to see The Greatest Show on Earth, a film that terrified and fascinated him. Ten years later, that couple divorced after years of unhappiness, leaving a lasting impact on the...
The Golden Globes are back after a year of (allegedly) finding themselves. They’ve made several changes, some substantial, some performative, but as to what effect they’ll have on the nominations, we’ll know soon enough. Because...
After a rapid-fire week of critics’ awards, only one major institution remains: the Los Angeles Film Critics Association! For those of you who don’t remember, LAFCA is a group of the most prominent critics in L.A. Once a year, they...
Well folks, it’s time. In more ways than one. This Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce the nominees for the 80th Golden Globe Awards, officially kicking off awards season. It will also be the Globes’ big return back...
Everywhere I’ve gone this holiday weekend, from work to Christmas parties to friends online, there’s one film I’ve been asked about more than any other: Violent Night. Seriously. More than any Oscar contender or blockbuster or niche indie film...
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