If Mad Max: Fury Road did one thing right for the film industry (other than set the bar for all action films to come in the next seven years – a bar that has yet to be met), it’s that it earned George Miller carte blanche. Despite a litany of...
I’ve seen a lot of things since I officially started covering the Oscar race six years ago. I’ve seen Netflix spend hundreds of millions of dollars only to sabotage their own campaigns. I’ve seen actors stick their own foot in their mouth and...
A Cronenberg picture always dares you to guess what the film’s about. Critics and scholars will bend over backward trying to analyze his nasty little films, parsing for meanings that are almost certainly intended, including man’s toxic...
Can an ending completely save a film? That’s the question I found myself asking coming out of Watcher, the directorial debut of acclaimed short film director Chloe Okuno. With a catchy hook reminiscent of the early films of Polanski and Argento...
It takes a skilled hand to make something truly terrifying a laughingstock. It has to raise serious questions and shine a light on the subject while simultaneously taking the complete piss out of it. In Emergency, Carey Williams adapts his own...
It’s hard to say why animated adaptations of beloved television shows are the only ones to ever succeed. Maybe it’s because animation is a more delightful art form. Maybe it’s because it’s easier to keep original casts around a lot longer...
I openly consider Top Gun one of the greatest action films of all time. Actually, that’s an understatement – at one point, it was listed as one of my greatest films of all time. It’s the platonic ideal of what an action film should be – stars so...
If you can make it past the opening sketches, it’s been pretty shocking how great Saturday Night Live has been this past season. But even if you love everything they’ve been doing on the 47-year-old show, one thing has been abundantly clear...
In a period in film history where studios seem to play things safer and safer with each outing, there’s an innate desire to praise Big Swings – films that grapple with the nature of existence in new and challenging ways. Take, for instance, Goran...
Broadway is back, baby, and with it, the Tony Awards. And not just any Tony Awards – the 75th Annual Tony Awards! Earlier this morning, we learned which plays and musicals will go down in history alongside A Chorus Line, Rent, and Hamilton. And...
After the last few years of…confusing Tony rules, Broadway is officially back, just in time for the 75th Tony Awards! That’s right, the biggest award in the art of theater is back – and just in time, too. This has been a jam-packed season full of...
There’s a common sentiment I’ve shared on The Sacred Wall several times before, and I will say it once again, loudly and proudly: I f*cking love Nicolas Cage. I wholeheartedly believe that the man is one of our finest living actors, playing...
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