La La Land
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) is in Oscar heaven with fourteen nominations total. This is equally remarkable as it is unremarkable. The Best Picture winners for the past five… Read more »
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land (2016) is in Oscar heaven with fourteen nominations total. This is equally remarkable as it is unremarkable. The Best Picture winners for the past five… Read more »
The documentary form is never more about truth or fiction than your average feature film. It is just another technique, another “fantasy”, another way of presenting a person, story or… Read more »
So much has been written on the films of Orson Welles, finished and unfinished, that it hardly seems necessary to contribute to that discussion at all. But having revisited It’s… Read more »
Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart (2019) tells the coming of age story of two best friends, Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein), on the eve of their high school graduation. And,… Read more »
It seems that film history is finally being amended to accurately represent the contributions of women filmmakers. People like Shelley Stamp are working very hard to draw critical attention to… Read more »
Is the new bartender Monte a secret agent? Is he a human cannonball? Is he a fugitive from England? These are the questions the waitresses ask themselves at the opening… Read more »
“Everybody wants a piece of your birthday cake/Fingers in the frosting, everybody wants to take/if you give an arm you can bet they’re gonna take a leg/living on this world… Read more »
As is often observed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s filmography, consisting of forty feature films, makes it difficult to critically appraise all of his films. Many times films are either over looked… Read more »
“Executed in 1966, Double Marlon is a celebration of a male icon. Warhol has placed the double image of Marlon Brando, taken from his highly influential and controversial 1953 movie… Read more »
This review was first published during the original release of this film. Captain America: Civil War was the most boring spectacle I had ever witnessed on the big screen. My… Read more »