It’s been a while since I provided you all with a good Wednesday Listicle. That’s my bad. I’ve fallen behind making the lists, which is a real shame, because they’re really fun (and occasionally easy!) to make. I’m going to start trying to get...
It’s been a quiet week over here at the Sacred Wall. I haven’t watched a whole lot of new films – in fact, I only had one chance to get the theater. That was to see the new documentary Echo In The Canyon, Jakob Dylan’s reflection on the Laurel...
When news broke out of Sundance that Shia LaBeouf had written an autobiographical story in therapy that he’d optioned into a feature length film, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. Actors making their life story, usually through their eyes, is 99...
Mid-summer, just as festivals begin to announce their lineups and studios begin finalizing their winter Oscar contenders, there’s a period of time where whispers begin floating around. They are faint, as if wisps of wind passing through L.A. and...
During the 90s, there was a period where British independent dramedies were operating on an international level. Films like The Commitments, Billy Elliot, Pride, and The Full Monty were not only becoming hits in the United Kingdom, they were...
One of the hottest anthologies on TV at the moment is Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story. While seemingly laced in irony and inherent silliness, Murphy has used America’s fascination with media-dominating crimes to comment on the flaws of the...
Marvel has been pretty quiet in the past few months, relatively speaking. Despite setting the box office record and reaching a $1 billion with Spider-Man: Far From Home, their next step has been kept relatively quiet. Now, this is fairly...
There are few truly legendary authors left alive at this point in history. I’m not saying there aren’t great authors out there – I’m talking about the legends that transcended the art form, who were instantly recognizable, and whose work can sit...
Happy Sunday, folks! I’m back from vacation, although mentally I’m still hundreds of miles away, enjoying a healthy combination of writing, movie watching, and drinking. Of course, in my time home I have managed to see two movies that I’ll be...
Few modern filmmakers respect the sanctity of the theatrical experience the same way as Christopher Nolan. From his insistence on 35 mm and IMAX film stock to his filmmaking daring viewers not to see it on the big screen (hi, Dunkirk and...
It’s been three years since Martin Scorsese last regaled us with one of his event films. The last of a certain kind of 70s auteur (along with Steven Spielberg, obviously), when Scorsese makes a film, you pay attention. And fresh off the news that...
Every once in a while, a project comes along that’s just so weird in all the right ways that it forces you to do a double take. It’s not exactly that it’s bad or even that outlandish. It’s just such an assortment of words and phrases that don’t...
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