Equity may seem at first like an answer to a certain criticism films like The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short get, namely that films about big finance seem bereft of women. Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad and...
The story of Kitty Genovese has remained in the American mindset for over 50 years. The most well-known version of the story is that on March 13th, 1964, in Kew Gardens, Queens, 28-year-old Kitty has stabbed to death while 38...
Finding Dory is not just the long-awaited sequel to Finding Nemo, one of Pixar’s biggest hits. It’s also the return of director Andrew Stanton, who hasn’t directed a film since 2012’s John Carter, his only live action feature and one...
Brian De Palma’s work is noted for its intricate camera moves and stylish sequences. So it’s interesting that almost all the new footage of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s documentary is of De Palma sitting in front of a mantle...
There are very few actors in modern cinema with the sartorial presence of Colin Firth. Anyone who has seen Kingsman: The Secret Service or A Single Man can confirm this. In Genius, that presence is taken to the nth degree...
For those that may have followed Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer – who work as a group called The Lonely Island – from Channel 101, to SNL, to their albums, and now their first branded feature (let’s say...
“So sad, but it’s Ukraine.” Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko says this late in the film but it could apply to almost any moment in the documentary Almost Holy. Mokhnenko runs a youth rehab center in the Mariupol region of Ukraine. The...
