Yesterday, the Television Academy announced their nominees for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. And they confirmed one thing in their nominations: in a banner year for television, voters ended up watching the same five...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is in a freefall at the moment. You may not notice it looking solely at box office receipts – after all, just shy of a billion dollars each outing is nothing to sneeze at. But with the rise of Disney+ and an...
The greatest feat a documentary can perform is immersing you into a new, frightening, and dazzling world. Some do it on a human scale, exploring the human psychoses in both positive and negative ways. Some do it on a natural scale, capturing the...
This Tuesday, the fall awards season officially kicks off with the nominees for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. And while the Emmys can often feel like a bit of a slump due to their frequent streaks for long-running shows (Game of Thrones kept...
I mean, we knew what we were getting with Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. It’s right there in the name. The King of Rock n’ Roll’s story told by the gonzo maximalist from Down Under. The only question is: can the man who refuses to let a shot last for more...
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...
The Sacred Wall is currently on vacation, and because of this, we won’t be covering the 75th Tony Awards live. I will be back to recap the nominations and performances sometime tomorrow, and until then, you can see my predictions below. The 75th...
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...
If Mad Max: Fury Road did one thing right for the film industry (other than set the bar for all action films to come in the next seven years – a bar that has yet to be met), it’s that it earned George Miller carte blanche. Despite a litany of...
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