Happy New Year to all! It’s been quite the year, at least in terms of my quest to follow all film. I started this year with the documentary Best of Enemies, and ended it with a second viewing of the film Sing. Along the way, I saw a record (for...
It goes without saying that La La Land is becoming a cultural phenomenon. Critics are praising it up and down, it’s become an awards darling, and it’s setting box office records left and right. It could become one of the only original films to...
Now that the whole “Christmas” thing is out of the way, we can get back to two whole months of Sacred Wall “Best Of” Listicles. I’m excited to share my thoughts with you on everything beyond the Entertainers of the Year. However, because the year...
2016 needs to just END ALREADY. It has now been confirmed by her son, Todd, that Hollywood Queen Debbie Reynolds has passed away at the age of 84, just one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie...
For a number of reasons, 2016 has been given the nickname “The Worst Year Ever.” One of those reasons is the remarkably high number of major icons who have passed away this year. David Bowie, Prince, Gene Wilder, and Doris Roberts are just a few...
For the first few minutes of Collateral Beauty, I believed the “worst of all time” claims were overblown. Sure, Will Smith’s monologue about how advertising “isn’t just about selling sh*t” quickly devolved into being about how advertising is just...
It’s very odd that saying a novel “reads like a movie” is deemed a compliment while a movie that “feels like a novel” is usually an insult. You’d think something going for a higher level of size and scope would be a compliment for a medium often...
It’s the final week of A Sacred Wall Christmas (The Greatest Gift of All), and the feeling of cheer is in the air! The egg nog is flowing freely (with enough rum to blind a pirate), the trees are illuminated brightly, and most importantly, the...
There are some films that feature performances so transcendent, you forget you are watching a movie and begin to believe you are seeing a real person. On occasion these performances can come from fiction, but more often than not, these types of...
Sing was sold to the public as a fun little kids’ film about animals competing in an American Idol type show. And boiled down to its parts, yeah, that’s what it is. But there’s also more to it than that. It’s a testament to those that love the...
David Lynch is one of the greatest living directors. The only thing better than his writing, which exists in a magical world where his dialogue is so on the nose in its thematic nature that it becomes intellectual again as opposed to shallow, is...
Confession time: I’m really not that big a fan of Blade Runner. Wait come back don’t go I need you! Yes, I know that’s sort of blasphemous in film critic circles, but outside of some of the greatest set design and cinematography in history...
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