At this point in time, the music biopic is a tried and true subgenre complete with loads of clichés and tropes. Anyone who has watched Jake Kasdan’s parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story knows that the music biopic is...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Heavy Traffic originally ran as a home video review. As more traditional, family-friendly cartoons have been reevaluated over the years, and the Looney Tunes shorts, Disney features, and...
The World War II genre lends itself to sprawling epic movies. From big battle scenes to politics and romance to clear distinctions between good and evil, the genre has something for everyone. The film Is Paris Burning? fits in that...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as a home video review. I feel bad for all those other films that don’t get to be Band of Outsiders. Now,...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of In a Year with 13 Moons originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. The sensitive and beautiful sadness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been more affecting...
Title: Stars at Noon Year: 2022 Director: Claire Denis Cast: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez Synopsis: An unlikely romance between a drifting American journalist (Qualley) and an elusive English businessman (Alwyn) strikes up amid rising political tensions...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Funeral Parade of Roses originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. There’s a fine line with avant-garde/experimental cinema, especially from the sixties and seventies; orthodoxies inspired by...
The hey-day of independent film was in the late ‘80s and throughout the ‘90s with movies like Slacker, Metropolitan, Bottle Rocket, Do The Right Thing, and others. There was just something about this era of American filmmaking that was really...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Performance originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Performance isn’t a great movie, but an entertaining one that personifies two polarizing sides of London’s underground. You have the...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Ride the Pink Horse originally ran as a home video review. From the first moments, it’s clear that Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse will not quite be...