Category: Craig Schroeder
Just as movies are empathy machines, as Roger Ebert famously quipped, food also allows people to relate to experiences wildly different from their own. Some of cinema’s greatest moments are those that exploit the inextricable link between food and the...
Squint just a bit and The Hummingbird Project—the new film from Kim Nguyen—looks an awful lot like David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network. Both films share Jesse Eisngberg as a lead, playing a confident neurotic who wades into murky...
In just ten years, Marvel Studios has created a vast net of influence over the way sci-fi/action films look and how these stories are told. For better or worse, they have created the template for movies about super-humans. And if...
10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs—the Coen Brothers’ long-gestating western anthology—is a film that bounces between comedy and tragedy with demented euphoria. The film opens with a farcical tale of a singing cowboy, a la...
Detainment If “Detainment” is any indication, this year’s crop of Oscar nominated short films are going to be a brutal entree of nastiness and despair. “Detainment,” based on the true story of a 1993 case from Liverpool in which a...
The Appaloosa sees Marlon Brando as Mateo, a tormented soul looking for revenge. A buffalo hunter and soldier only a decade or so removed from the Civil War, Mateo (or Matt, as only the credits call him) returns to his...
Little Annie Rooney stars Mary Pickford as the titular scamp and leader of a gang of young ruffians and street urchins who have found themselves in an embittered battle against a similarly tempered crew of rogues and rascals. While the...
The idea of recreational climbing is as foreign to me—someone too afraid to step off a ladder to clean the rain gutters—as a desert to a fish but I’m fascinated by what compels someone to do something so transgressive. George...
“The Silent Child” dir. Chris Overton Films, or art for that matter, are radical pieces of activism, promoting the ideals of their creators to a larger audience. Some films are more overt about the kind of change they intend to...