Happy Sacred Walloween, everyone! Something I’ve always wanted to do this time of year is write up a breakdown of my #31DaysOfHorror! A personal mini-marathon, every year I try to watch one horror film I’ve never seen before a day, to properly...
If there’s one thing you can say about a Joe Wright production, it’s that you’re going to have a simple story executed on a gonzo scale. Atonement’s trippy intercutting story, Hanna’s hyper-realistic child assassin, Anna Karenina’s “inside a...
Well, I said I’d be back later this week with an update from the New York Film Festival as soon as reviews rolled in for The Tragedy of Macbeth, the newest film by Joel Coen of the Coen Brothers. And you may want to sit down lest you suffer a...
I’ve covered a lot of weird properties and productions on this site in my five years of covering pop culture. I’ve covered a pitched White Girls reboot, a Mamma Mia sequel, and Toy Story 4’s Forky. Hell, one of my first reviews for this site was...
When a Coen Brother makes a film – solo or otherwise – you take notice. When he casts Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in the lead roles, you become invested. And when the film is an adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous...
Well, the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards have come to a close. And overall, it was a night that gave us mostly what we expected – obvious winners, a couple big surprises, and a laidback atmosphere that showed us both the best and worst that award...
I feel like I’ve been writing way too many obituaries recently. And it’s not getting any easier, as Norm Macdonald, a man I consider to be one of my greatest comedic influences and one of the greatest comics to ever live, has passed away at the...
The big Oscar contender every year is the one that sneaks by subtly until festival season, and then strikes like a knife. It’s how Moonlight won, it’s how Roma won, hell, it’s even how Green Book won. This year, that quiet little underdog is...
It’s truly amazing and horrifying how fast tragedy can strike. Just last night, I was watching The Sopranos episode “Army of One,” which featured a breakout performance by beloved character actor Michael K. Williams. I thought to myself, “It’s...
The refrain I’ve been hearing for a few weeks now from festival insiders and fellow critics is that this was going to be the most stacked festival season in recent memory. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, considering how many big...
The Telluride Film Festival still remains one of the most important events of the year, when it comes to foreseeing the rest of the cinematic year. Even with last year’s pandemic cancellation, they still managed to make the right call, with...
This week, we begin one of the most important periods of the awards race: the Fall Festivals. Over the course of about three weeks, critics and Hollywood bigwigs will descend upon Venice, Toronto, and Telluride in order to get their first looks...
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