László Nemes is one of the most audacious filmmakers in international cinema. His sublime WWII drama Son of Saul powerfully demonstrated that film still plays a vital role in making sense of the nonsensical. With his latest, Sunse...
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but it’s terribly evident that The Flash simply cannot sustain seasons that are 23 episodes long. We’re only five entries into the current one, and already the individual plots feel like filler to p...
One would think that artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel would be perfectly primed to provide a cinematic look at the life of another iconoclastic artist, Vincent van Gogh. With At Eternity’s Gate, the director strives to provide...
Marcelino Islas Hernández’s strange, affecting film Clases de Historia (History Lessons) is a darkly comic tale about a teacher’s burgeoning friendship with a young student. It has elements that draw from the likes of Hal Ashby’s ...
Amazon’s darkly comic spy thriller Patriot largely flew under the radar during its first season last year, never quite building the hype or buzz of the streaming network’s higher-profile shows. (I’d estimate it has about 1% the ad...
Having written about so many horror flicks for this column, it’s little wonder that I’d eventually feel compelled to give another genre a shot. In doing so, I inadvertently wound up picking a movie featuring more dismemberment, mo...
Rick Grimes is gone, and yet The Walking Dead limps on. Now that we’ve officially entered the post-Rick era, has anything meaningful actually changed?
Between Blu-ray and Ultra HD, a deep selection of nearly a hundred movie and TV titles hit disc this week. That’s a lot to go through, so let’s dive right in.
As Dr. Seuss’ dastardly Grinch gets adapted for the third time (once in television and twice in feature films), our Roundtable this week will look at other beloved children’s books that have successfully transitioned from page to ...
Julius Avery’s Overlord mines enough deeply cathartic tropes – revenge drama, invasion thriller, escapist war film, revivification romp – that the film was always going to lean towards being either a scattershot and aimless homage...
It’s a pity that The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story takes a fascinating character like Lisbeth Salander and turns her into a generic hacker action star. The character’s trauma and her survival defined her in t...
Though the title doesn’t go into plot details, The Grinch is specifically about that green grump trying, once again, to steal Christmas. In the second feature-length adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic children’s book (the beloved 19...
