It’s rather astonishing that more movie musicals aren’t set in high schools. After all, Grease is one of the highest grossing musicals of all time, and the hormone and emotion-ridden time in an adolescent’s life marks the perfect place for...
Horror based on depression has become a dime a dozen in recent years. While it’s always been a recurring theme in the genre (horror is designed to help us cathartically release the terrors we can’t explain), it seems that in recent years these...
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...
Animation is a genre is supposed to find new ways to expand the imagination. It’s meant to take us to places the human mind cannot go, and to utilize visual metaphors to explore human emotion. Right now, the best place to witness these...
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...
Recently on social media, I hinted at the prospect of an entire month (give or take) cultivating lists focused around a specific genre, building up to one of my long-overdue “All-Time Greats” lists. In my pitch, I mentioned a month focused on...
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...
In 1992, Candyman landed in theaters. It came at the tail end of the 80s horror craze, and without the name branding of Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees, the film barely broke even at the box office. But as an original horror film with big things...
Sad news today as legendary star of television and film Ed Asner passed away at the age of 91.
In 2019, the Met Gala chose “Camp” as its theme. The choice was controversial, as most of the stars were too obsessed with their own glamour and attractiveness to truly understand the concept of camp. A similar issue arises with Craig Gillespie’s...
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