I always have been, an always will be, obsessed with the “whodunit.” Mostly a television commodity now (see Murder Room, Psych, Monk, Castle, Columbo, etc.), the genre once populated film and literature, with titans like Sidney Lumet, Neil Simon...
Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the Police Academy. And so begins Charlie’s Angels, the hit 1970s TV show that tackled issues of sexism and feminism long before they came to the forefront. Following three former police...
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was the breakout hit of 2017. A sequel that should not have worked for a million reasons, not least of which being the death of franchise star Robin Williams, Jungle proved to be a charming, entertaining pastiche of...
With television on the rise, ticket prices spiking, and audiences growing bored with sequels and remakes, there are really only three constants that Hollywood can count on anymore: Marvel films, Pixar, and Christopher Nolan epics. Ever since he...
It’s been a pretty quiet week over here at the Sacred Wall. Due to travelling and massive amounts of writing (TWO A+ reviews!), I didn’t get a chance to go out and see anything new. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t have a chance for other movies...
There’s a long history in children’s television songs being composed by decidedly un-child friendly writers. Disney’s in-house writers for a half-decade were Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, who got their Broadway start with dirty, nasty, funny...
One of the most exciting moments a critic – and even a general audience member – can have is when a new talent bursts onto the scene. While writer/director Lulu Wang has made a few smaller features before, The Farewell is the kind of breakout...
One of the more underrated musicals out of this year’s Tony lineup was The Prom. Written by The Drowsy Chaperone’s Bob Martin, and with music and lyrics by The Wedding Singer’s Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, The Prom has been a critical and...
We don’t really get many “insane concept” films anymore. I don’t mean high concept, aka traditional films with crazy plots, like Her or The Shape of Water. I mean truly dumb ideas that either work or they don’t – films like Bugsy Malone, a...
Cinema has, in the modern era, become quite stale. Long gone are the days when film was transgressive, when artists took risks in their narrative, visual, and thematic storytelling. Once upon a time, there was the French New Wave, the Italian...
Another week, another series of movies as we near the halfway point of the year! I saw two new films this week – one that I’ve reviewed already, and one that is on its way. The former is the delightful Toy Story 4, which I reviewed right here and...
Something I’ve done on this site for quite some time, as a means of explanation for readers, as a fun little throwback, and as an analytic trademark, is compare modern directors to directors of the past. Christopher Nolan is the new Spielberg...
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