The 2023 Academy Awards: Thoughts and Predictions
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The Oscars love a comeback story, and I’m not sure there’s one more indicative of the Academy’s push for more racial inclusion than Ke […]
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: The Oscars love a comeback story, and I’m not sure there’s one more indicative of the Academy’s push for more racial inclusion than Ke […]
“We’ll endeavor to make your evening as pleasant as possible.” Full of folly and fear and glazed with the false pursuit of confectionary perfection, The Menu is fun fodder worth chewing […]
“Prove it’s nonsense.” To watch The Wonder is to step into a confessional only to find no divider between the priest and the penitent; here seeing is part of the believing, […]
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]
“I don’t know what the protocol is for something like this.” Sometimes you watch a film and just know from the opening sequence – so long as the wheels don’t […]
“You should give in.” Mature and scarred on the surface yet often sullenly morose and jejune on the inside, Halloween Ends is destined to be one of the most divisive […]
“There is beauty in control. There is grace in symmetry. We move as one.” Even though it so earnestly errs towards being mysterious, Don’t Worry Darling doesn’t try to hide […]
“I’ll meet you on the other side.” In context with the above quote, and aligned with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s general approach to the nuances of noir that I’ve seen […]
“I can’t give you what I haven’t got.” I can’t remember the last time I left a film feeling the way I did after watching Boiling Point, one of 2021’s best […]
“Tonight we hunt him down.” It’s a struggle for me to ever really feel one way or another about a new Halloween movie when it’s been released. Most people are […]