‘The Last of Us’ review: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey survive and thrive in Neil Druckmann’s faithful yet expansive adaptation
There has been a disconnect between video games and their adaptations in the last decade, an issue that stems from many individual hurdles to be... Read More
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‘M3GAN’ review: Blumhouse’s malignant Barbie is bulletproof and has nothing to lose
It’s January. Time to watch a terrible horror movie again… for the nth time. At least it seemed that way when we first heard of... Read More
20 years ago ‘Chicago’ promised a new era of razzle dazzle movie musicals but Hollywood had… artistic differences [Retrospective]
It remains one of the most effective stylistic gambits in cinema history: Over the course of five cuts in about two seconds, we watch as... Read More
30 years later, does the ‘hoo-ah’ of Al Pacino’s Oscar win for ‘Scent of a Woman’ still smell as sweet? [Retrospective]
I fell in love with Oscarwatching in the 90s – which was a magical time for me in regard to cinema. I began to cultivate... Read More
‘Babylon’ review: Here’s to the fools who dream; Damien Chazelle’s epitaph for cinema is the evil b-side to ‘La La Land’
When Mia begrudgingly attends a party at the start of Damien Chazelle’s magical, much-discussed film La La Land, she stares at her reflection in the... Read More
‘Gangs of New York’ at 20: All the beauty and the bloodshed of Martin Scorsese’s 1860s New York City immigrant mobster tale still holds [Retrospective]
I can still remember walking out of the AMC theater in Framingham, Massachusetts after hearing U2’s powerful song The Hands That Built America and marveling... Read More
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ review: James Cameron returns to Pandora and it’s bigger and better than ever
It seems as if for the past thirteen years, James Cameron’s technical marvel only found its way back into the conversation as “that movie that... Read More
‘Tootsie’ at 40: Something’s telling me it might (still) be you – Retrospective
It may be the ultimate personification of the current zeitgeist, but discussion and consideration of gender roles, identification and fluidity is not new, nor is... Read More
‘The Star’ retrospective: Bette Davis put the camp in Oscar campaign in the zenith of meta awards movies
“C’mon, Oscar,” says Bette Davis in The Star (1952), clutching one of her own golden statuettes from the 1930s. “Let’s you and me get drunk!”... Read More
‘Violent Night’ review: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight
One of my favorite Christmas poems growing up goes, “‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except... Read More
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