Something that doesn’t really exist anymore, for a whole litany of reasons, is the downer satire. I’m talking about a film filled with righteous anger and passion, as if to say “Open your f*cking eyes, people. The entire system is broken.” The...
I think it’s finally happened folks. While Pixar has had bad trailers before, its hit and miss ratio is pretty stupendous. Even the lesser films like Brave and Monsters University had tiny glimmers of promise. But as we receive the trailer for...
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...
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...
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...
Currently, against almost everyone’s wishes, CinemaCon is occurring in some obscure West Coast location. While I usually obsess over the event, there seems to be a general lack of interest from studios this year, and therefore I haven’t paid much...
Over the course of the Olympics these last few weeks, studios seemed to embrace the Super Bowl model of dropping trailers for their major upcoming releases during sporting events. From blockbusters to Oscar contenders, we’ve seen no less than...
One of my biggest question marks for the coming year has been The Harder They Fall. Directed by Jeymes Samuel for Netflix, the film has all the makings of a movie I’d love: Western genre, a classic revenge story, and an all-star cast (Jonathan...
While there are several “correct” answers to the question “What’s the greatest TV show of all time,” it’s almost an inevitability that whoever you ask will have The Sopranos in the Top Five. Walking a very thin border between “epic drama” and...
You know, I gotta hand it to Adam Wingard and the team at Warner Bros. While the last trailers in the Monsterverse (or whatever it’s calling itself) have relied on a weird amount of mystery and buildup to their big reveals, they seem to know...
One of my most anticipated films of the year to date has been Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season. I’m a huge fan of the romantic comedy genre, and the idea of a classic rom-com, with big stars and a holiday setting, that also serves as one of the...
When Adam Sandler entered the Oscar race in 2019 for Uncut Gems, he made the humorous threat that “If they don’t nominate me for this, I will come back and make the worst movie in the history of cinema.” Well, the Academy failed to live up to...
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