Look, I’ll confess. I didn’t see Hillbilly Elegy. I know, I know, it was nominated for a goddamn Oscar and everything but something told me maybe I ought to skip it. If that movie is even half as patronizing toward...
Melvin Van Peebles’ The Story of a Three-Day Pass was restored with funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association well before the HFPA’s recent scandals in which, among other embarrassments, their diversity consultant quit and they expelled their own former...
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He may have spent his career wildly hopping genres, from historical melodrama (Raise the Red Lantern) to wuxia epic (Hero) to gangster flick (Shanghai Triad) to Coen brothers remake (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop) to however you...
Despite the ups and downs of success and critical reception throughout his career, there remains something stubbornly auteuristic about Rodrigo Garcia. It’s not just that he returns again and again to female-centric, upper middle class domestic melodramas, though that’s certainly...
In the first shots of Grímur Hákonarson’s The County, Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir’s Inga enters a barn to find a cow early in the act of giving birth, with a pair of small hooves protruding from her body. Inga wraps a...
There’s an ironic employment of what ought to be HGTV fantasy material in the scene in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Things Heard & Seen when when a young couple–Amanda Seyfried’s Catherine and James Norton’s George–first arrive at their...
Tyler and David discuss their favorite films of 1957. This episode is available to Patreon subscribers only. Tiers start as low as $2 per month. Become a Patron! Become a Patron!
Of the many, many parts of Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat that are awkward and clumsy, perhaps the worst are those times when the movie tries too hard to make sense. We start with a tragic prologue set 400 years in...
