There are few things as tried and true in this world than the pure joy of a well-made romantic comedy. We really haven’t seen a truly great one in recent years, outside of the more dramatic Silver Linings Playbook and Her. In fact, the last...
There are times when you have to make your worst film before you can recover with something great. Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, but it allowed her to truly impress with The Beguiled, a “remake” of the...
Baby Driver is the reason you like to go to the movies. It’s slick, smart, and fun. It can land a joke just as easily as it can land a punch. And most importantly, it can tell a simple, traditional story in a way that actually feels new and...
There are certain givens in the film world. Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick are the greatest directors of all time, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, and Casablanca are the greatest films, and Katherine Hepburn and Meryl Streep are the...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we are in a golden age of horror. The last eight years have given us some of the most brilliant movies the genre has seen, driving directly to the heart of our basest fears and explored the things we...
Wonder Woman is a film that was created through blending things that don’t really belong together. It blends the CGI slo-mo of Zack Snyder with the morally diverse characters of Patty Jenkins. It blends the screwball comedy with the superhero...
I’ve created a sample of the Reddit AMA I held in my head after seeing The Mummy to help you understand my thoughts during the film:
Richard Linklater has been on a role of sorts recently. In fact, arguably his worst film in seven years was Bernie, and that’s still an absolutely charming, enjoyable film. Since then, he’s given us the near-perfect Before Midnight, the...
Tomorrow is the 71st Annual Tony Awards, which, to use a description by Rachel Bloom, is essentially “if the Oscars had talent.” What will be interesting is that, unlike the last six years, there really isn’t a clear frontrunner in any of the big...
Many years ago, when I was three or four, I watched my first live action film. That film was the 1966 Batman: The Movie, and I was enamored. The campy, satirical nature of that show bore through my skull, and may have given birth to my love of...
I think the final nail in the coffin for Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie came around the hour mark. That was the point where I realized that the audience of my screening, made up mostly of families with young children, the toddler...
Television shows that begin with stellar pilots and first seasons seem to paradoxically be worse off than shows that struggle at first. Seinfeld and 30 Rock had rough first episodes before building up to the classics we know and love today, while...
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