Viper Club Review: No Bite
Even in our current state of near-constant wartime, many victims of war still haven’t had their stories told on screen. We got a hint of what it’s like to be a modern war correspondent in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Fox...
Even in our current state of near-constant wartime, many victims of war still haven’t had their stories told on screen. We got a hint of what it’s like to be a modern war correspondent in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Fox...
For decades, no one thought that Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, would be finished, let alone shown publicly. Welles shot the movie between 1970 and 1976, but never completed the thing before he died in...
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is a mainstay in contemporary Christmas seasons. I can’t think of a ballet company that doesn’t perform it, or a person who isn’t somehow aware of the music. It’s part of ...
The familial comedy-drama can be a tough line to walk. Too sad, and the laughs seem out of place. Too funny, and the dramatic bits seem to be pandering to the emotions of the audience. Stella’s Last Weekend does a fine job o...
Repetition in film fascinates me. I love seeing emerging patterns and repeated phrases as a way for filmmakers to call our attention to certain details. I wish I had the foresight to count the number of times the word “fine&...
Part mystery, part thriller, Silencio takes a long, hard look at loss and grief, all while maintaining that there’s still a little bit of mystery in them hills.
The redundant title Hunter Killer might seem like a stutter, but it’s a perfect sign of things to come. You see, Hunter Killer thinks so little of its audience, it brings up nearly every plot point, nearly every attempt at c...
Full disclosure: I have not seen the previous two Johnny English films. Something tells me that I haven’t missed much in terms of plot or character depth, but I wanted to be honest with you, dear reader. The first in the ser...
The Book of Birdie is a weird one. The film is nearly impossible to categorize into one or even two genres. Somehow, nothing really happens in the plot, yet a lot goes on. Even with this lack of specificity or tonal cohesiveness, ...
The opening of Thunder Road is one of the most cringingly hilarious scenes of 2018. The rest of the movie never quite reaches the level of awkward humor in that opening number, but it comes close.
As much fun as it is to escape to the fictional, ultra-rich worlds of Crazy Rich Asians or Trading Places, diving into certain niche pockets of the wealthy’s lives can be a bit confounding and exacerbating. One of the more i...
Thanksgiving should be a pure holiday. No Hallmark pressure to buy cards or decorate the house. No corporate consumerism pressing us to buy gifts for everyone we know. We’re just supposed to eat, digest, and be grateful. How...