Ever since Straight Outta Compton became a box office hit and Bohemian Rhapsody swept the 2018 Academy Awards, we’ve been seeing an extraordinary amount of musical biopics flood the silver screen. Some have been rather impressive, like Elton...
In the wake of the Fan Voted Oscar fiasco, it’s worth asking “what makes a blockbuster art?” It’s not like a big budget extravaganza can’t be artistically groundbreaking – Jaws was as much about political corruption and human survival as it was a...
2021 proved to…not be the year of theatrical recovery we hoped it would be. In fact, all it did was further the gap between independent theater and midbudget movies from Marvel and Disney’s stranglehold on the market. Still, I hold out faith that...
It’s time, everyone! The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards are here to kick off the televised awards race season, after last year’s confusing and disappointing press-conference version. It’s our first glimpse at how the industry...
It doesn’t feel like there should be awards shows going on. I don’t mean this in the sense of “Oh my God, the world’s coming apart” – although there is that too. I mean that it feels like the 28th Screen Actors Guild has done almost no...
As we return to the Sacred Wall’s Best of 2021, it’s time once again to turn to artistry of trailer-making. With audiences testing the waters of what’s worth seeing in the theater and what’s not, trailers served a significantly important purpose...
There’s a bad habit in film criticism in which the critic will throw out two seemingly disjointed words in an attempt to describe or analyze a picture. “It’s X meets Y!” and so forth. It’s a habit I try very hard not to use, or at least to...
Something that Netflix has successfully mastered in their insane “300 movies a year” model is the simple, straightforward “informational documentary.” It’s not so much an exploration of something shocking, and it might not have any information...
You know what always works? Pandering to the lowest common denominator of fans. It’s why Ghostbusters: Afterlife was so successful, it’s why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker turned out so well, and it’s why Ready Player One is the...
Last year, I provided a database of every Oscar-nominated film, and which streaming services they could be found on. While it was wildly popular, I assumed it was going to be a one-and-done thing, a fluke of the pandemic to help readers watch as...
You know you’re witnessing something special if a film can be described as “The fastest three hours of your life.” Such is the case with Drive My Car, the newest film from Japan’s new “It Director” Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. Quiet and contemplative and...
The 94th Academy Awards are officially underway, and there’s a lot of history to be made as The Power of the Dog leads the pack with 12 nominations.
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