Category: 2017

2017 / ian brill / movies

January 13, 2018

Ian’s Top Ten of 2017

10. War for the Planet of the Apes The third film of Fox’s new Apes films is the brilliant culmination of what this series has been driving toward. For the first time in the franchise a film is entirely told...

2017 / movies / scott nye

January 9, 2018

Scott’s Top Ten of 2017

2017 will not go down as a great year in many respects, and unfortunately I cannot assert that film will run contrary to that pattern. But much of what plagued me in the political sphere and dripped into the personal...

2017 / awards / movies / news / tyler smith

December 11, 2017

A Most Varied Year, by Tyler Smith

With the Golden Globes nominees just announced, it’s fair to say that awards season has officially begun. However, to go by the various critics groups so far, it’s damn near impossible to predict which film is the frontrunner for Best...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 28, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: In the Fade, by David Bax

Fatih Akin’s In the Fade is a story about revenge. But before you get pictures in your head of grimly resolute characters setting out to even the score like cowboys in some old Western, know that it’s not that kind...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 28, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: The Other Side of Hope, by David Bax

Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope is replete with guys with shaggy hair and sunglasses playing folk rock on guitars. Whether they’re busking or gigging, these interstitial sections could seem like a fetishization of a specific, Beat hipster type...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 20, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: April’s Daughter, by David Bax

In movies and in life, a baby is a living collection of potential ticking time bombs. They are precious and also completely incapable of self-preservation. To turn your back on them for even a moment is to risk disaster. This...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / scott nye / tyler smith

November 19, 2017

Episode 557: AFI Fest 2017 Wrap-Up

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Scott Nye to discuss the movies they saw at this year’s AFI Fest.

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

November 19, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: Claire’s Camera and The Day After, by Scott Nye

Hong Sang-soo is known for his productivity, having made a film or two every year since 2008, but even his fans were caught off-guard by the 2017 threefer On the Beach at Night Alone, Claire’s Camera, and The Day After....

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

November 19, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: Gemini, by Scott Nye

It’s become somewhat inevitable for American directors behind personal, low-key and -budget films to find a foothold in throwback genre cinema to get any kind of foothold at all. David Robert Mitchell followed his sweet teen film The Myth of...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

November 16, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: Hannah, by Scott Nye

The past fifteen years or so of art house cinema has not exactly been short on films with little plot, the rely on everyday actions to fill the running time and some underlying notion of conflict. This model, like any...

Category: 2017

Scott’s Top Ten of 2017

A Most Varied Year, by Tyler Smith

AFI Fest 2017: In the Fade, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2017: The Other Side of Hope, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2017: April’s Daughter, by David Bax

Episode 557: AFI Fest 2017 Wrap-Up

AFI Fest 2017: Claire’s Camera and The Day After, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2017: Gemini, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2017: Hannah, by Scott Nye

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