Written by Patrick Hao 45/100 Movies haven't quite gotten a handle on how to portray the ongoing opioid epidemic in America, especially with how it affects the rust belt states. Ben is Back and Beautiful Boy falls into cloying sentimentality, … Continue reading.
Tribeca 2021 Film Festival Capsule Review: The Kicksled Choir
Written by Alexander Reams 23/100 Rarely a film will frustrate and bore me to the point of verbally begging the film to end, to end this misery of sitting through such a pedantic and heavy handed film. Such is the … Continue reading.
MCU Retrospective: Iron Man 3
Written by Anna Harrison In these retrospectives, Anna will be looking back on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, providing context around the films, criticizing them, pointing out their groundwork for the future, and telling everyone her favorite scene, because her opinion … Continue reading.
Midsommar
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 Style and story don’t cohere as rewardingly in Midsommar as in Aster’s debut, but his formal dexterity and ornate, hand-crafted aesthetics make for a visually distinctive and viscerally dreadful trip. In Hereditary, Toni Collette’s Annie carefully … Continue reading.
Oscar Reflection | Best Picture & Best Director from the 84th Academy Awards
Written by Alexander Reams The Artist: 42/100 There are some serious holes in my Best Picture and Best Director filmographies and I was given the idea to go through and watch them. I have seen most of the post 2010 … Continue reading.
Old
Written by Patrick Hao 75/100 There is a simple beauty to the premise of Old, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest feature. A seemingly idyllic family goes to a seemingly idyllic beachside. Of course, the families and the beachside are not quite … Continue reading.
Tribeca 2021 Film Festival Review: Last Film Show
Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show opens with a thank you to people the director has likely never met: the Lumière brothers, Eadweard Muybridge, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Some of these names are … Continue reading.
Episode 112: Rescreening The Big Heat
“I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.”Fritz Lang Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Podcasts | LibSyn | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube This week … Continue reading.
Ted Lasso: Season 1 Review
Written by Alexander Reams In honor of Ted Lasso Season 2 premiering today we have a full review of Season 1 in it's entirety below. Once you're done reading you can watch Season 2 Episode one here. Season 1 Overall … Continue reading.
MCU Retrospective: The Avengers
Written by Anna Harrison In these retrospectives, Anna will be looking back on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, providing context around the films, criticizing them, pointing out their groundwork for the future, and telling everyone her favorite scene, because her opinion … Continue reading.
