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It’s crazy we’re already a quarter of the way through the year. I always thought it was a cliche to say time flies as you get older, but that might be the most accurate statement of my entire life. Every day feels like it’s three hours long and by the time I’m fully awake and […]
There’s a reason why the ratings for the Oscars have kept going down over the last few years. A lot of that has to do with the fact that critics and audiences rarely agree on what constitutes a great film anymore. Just pick any movie on Rotten Tomatoes and compare the critics’ score with the […]
It feels like a lot of the movies I’ve been writing about lately have been really heavy. Not necessarily depressing, but intense enough to feel like a mix between homework and heavy lifting. So this week I decided I was going to try to watch something that pressed all of my nostalgia buttons; something that […]
“The Batman,” director Matt Reeves’ new reboot of the forever franchise (after Ben Affleck turned in the cape and cowl) answers a question many of us have had for years: what if Batman was super into The Cure? Imagine if a mix of Kurt Cobain and Howard Hughes and you’ll be close to Robert Pattinson’s […]
Here we are, in the midst of a lovely false spring and the skies are clear, the sun is warm and nothing could possibly go wrong. What’s that you say? Russia is acting squirrelly? Yeah, that makes sense, only in the roaring ’20s would we follow up a planet-wide pandemic with a possible world war. […]
There’s nothing I love more than an underlying current of melancholy floating beneath a film, giving the piece a tone and a texture unlike anything else. As great as a romance or a horror movie can be, if there’s a film that finds that balance of emotional realism and a sadness based in the everyday […]
Sometimes if a film has a lot on its mind, it can get buried under too much thematic weight. Look at something like “Don’t Look Up,” which I liked a lot more than most, but between the warring tones of comedy, drama, satire and science fiction, and the battle between the ideas of climate change, […]
There’s nothing I love more than an underlying current of melancholy floating beneath a film, giving the piece a tone and a texture unlike anything else. As great as a romance or a horror movie can be, if there’s a film that finds that balance of emotional realism and a sadness based in the everyday […]
Whenever something is just too beautiful to put into words, there’s a line from the 1997 Jodie Foster movie, “Contact,” I fall back on: “They should have sent a poet.” She says that line when laying eyes on extraterrestrial life for the first time because she just can’t explain to the people back in mission […]
Pedro Almodóvar changed movies forever, and he did so by simply following his exact vision and never deviating from it…even a little bit. When he moved to Madrid in 1967 to go to the National School of Cinema, he could have never guessed that infamous Spanish dictator Francisco Franco would have it shut down. Such […]
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