We tend to develop relationships to sitcom characters that are slightly different than the ones we forge with other fictional people, probably because their main purpose is to make us smile. So it can be especially difficult to adjust to...
Nearly six and a half minutes have passed in George Gallo’s Vanquish before the movie has actually begun in earnest. The ludicrously protracted opening title sequence seems like a blatant stab at dragging the film’s running time over the 90...
Each of the young men and women on board the massive spaceship in Neil Burger’s Voyagers (not counting chaperone/father figure Richard, played by Colin Farrell) has been trained for their crucial mission since birth. Their top flight education is self-evident;...
In case you had worried that the “look how awesome the music of my youth” film was had faded as the boomers aged out of the business, the past ten years have brought about a new generation intent on telling...
The director’s cut has long been a source of comfort for film fans. Rooted in the idea of a movie’s director being its primary author, a director’s cut is an opportunity for a filmmaker – likely stymied by a short-sighted...
It’s 1961, the Cold War is at its peak, and, as The Courier’s opening titles remind us, both America and the Soviet Union stand poised on the brink of mutually assured destruction thanks to a buildup in nuclear arms. The...
What does it say about Joe Carnahan, director of such brawny and well-loved movies as Narc and The Grey, that the work to which he chooses to pay self-homage in the lazy Boss Level is the critically reviled Smokin’ Aces?...
Tempting though it may be to say that Keep an Eye Out represents another step in the right direction for Quentin Dupieux after the surprisingly good Deerskin (the first of his film’s I’ve liked), it’s actually the other way around....
Right now is probably not the most ideal time to be touting a movie’s new restoration overseen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The scandal over that organization’s lack of diversity is only the latest controversy to plague Francine Parker’s...
Have you ever watched a movie with two storylines going on at the same time and thought, “Storyline B is so much better than Storyline A! I want to see more of that!”? That is what A Writer’s Odyssey is. A movie...
