This year’s Emmy Awards is going to be a sh*tshow. Not in terms of quality – rumors support the theory that the Emmys have been really into the better shows out there, so the odds of an Emily in Paris fiasco are minimal (but not impossible). No...
I’ve made no secret around these parts that I believe The Conjuring is one of the finest films of the last decade. It is a solid horror film that not only delivers the scares – it demonstrates a true understanding of the craft of filmmaking as a...
One of my biggest question marks for the coming year has been The Harder They Fall. Directed by Jeymes Samuel for Netflix, the film has all the makings of a movie I’d love: Western genre, a classic revenge story, and an all-star cast (Jonathan...
While there are several “correct” answers to the question “What’s the greatest TV show of all time,” it’s almost an inevitability that whoever you ask will have The Sopranos in the Top Five. Walking a very thin border between “epic drama” and...
There are certain movie musical spectacles that just take your breath away. The ensemble pieces of Busby Berkeley. That opening prologue to West Side Story. The log dance in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Or the dance across the bleachers in...
Ed. Note: This past February, I had the opportunity to virtually attend the Sundance Film Festival. I watched a total of ten films over the course of three days. And while scheduling did not permit me to run them in February, I did have a chance...
In the world of horror, one of the foremost producers of high-quality terror has to be A24. From Hereditary and Midsommar to Climax and The Lighthouse (not to mention The VVitch, In Fabric, and Saint Maud), A24 has released one of the better...
It was sort of inevitable that we would be seeing a Harvey W*instein film sooner rather than later. Hollywood loves a good story, especially one where they (eventually) “do the right thing” and out a monster. And despite immediacy only ever...
A genre that really doesn’t exist in Hollywood anymore is the gonzo comedy. Sort of a go-for-broke approach, the gonzo comedy exists as a series of loosely-connected ideas where the filmmakers lean so far into the stupidity of the idea, often...
And the beat goes on. We’re only a few days removed from Nomadland’s utter domination of the longest awards season ever, and it’s time to look forward to the future. 2021 is going to be one of the weirdest Oscars of all time, as the eligibility...
By this point almost everyone is aware that last Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony was met with…let’s say mixed results. The production team, led by legendary director Steven Soderbergh, took some major risks in the ceremony, and many, if not most...
The Western genre is the story of America’s foundation, or at least the way we like to tell it. This has always been the case from the early days of Hollywood, when filmmakers like John Ford told tall tales of brave white pioneers traversing...
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