First Man
First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land (2016), is diametrically opposed to both the musical genre and fantastique escapism in general. First Man (2018) is a film about… Read more »
Tag: 2010s
A Simple Favor
What is Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor (2018) about? I can only say for certain that A Simple Favor is interested in female relationships. For a film with so much… Read more »
Wonder Woman
“Warner Bros. owns Wonder Woman and they need permission for every little thing you do,…Unfortunately, they didn’t want them stepping on the character that they own.” – Lynda Carter In… Read more »
Frances Ha
It was while working on Greenberg (2010) that writer/director Noah Baumbach began his relationship with Greta Gerwig. Subsequently, the pair penned the screenplay for Frances Ha (2012) together, with Gerwig… Read more »
X-Men: Apocalypse
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse is not about a dystopian future, but rather how the X-Men manage to avert… Read more »
The Love Witch
Superficially, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) may seem like nothing more than a pastiche; some cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (1968)… Read more »
It
When I was growing up our family doctor had something of an obsession with clowns. All over his office were little oil paintings of clowns, dolls of clowns, decorative plates… Read more »
Detroit
“Nervous breakdowns/Crowd the calendar of freedom/When reality is forced upon the nonbeliever’s ego plan/Criticizers/From the hanging cliffs of plenty/Laugh to see the fall of those/Who would remain in honest lands/Clairvoyants… Read more »
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner (1982) has gotten a sequel. Anyone who has seen Ridley Scott’s film is probably wondering why or even how a sequel could have been made. Oddly, Blade Runner… Read more »
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird (2017), is the “hip” ticket this holiday season. Like Wonder Woman (2017) in the spring, Lady Bird suits the zeitgeist; though in many respects… Read more »
