Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Albert Brooks and Rob Reiner have been best friends since high school. They are both the sons of prominent comedians who followed in their fathers’ footsteps and went on to… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Dumb Money
Craig Gillespie’s film of The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money (2023), takes the familiar formal structure of his earlier film I, Tonya (2017), which itself is derived from… Read more »
Priscilla
Priscilla (2023) is Sofia Coppola’s Raging Bull (1980); a film that documents the all encompassing destructive nature of masculinity. But unlike Scorsese’s film, Priscilla is a story told from the… Read more »
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s historical epic Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023) has been released and entered public discourse as the United States, as a nation, grapples with its history and attempts… Read more »
A Haunting In Venice
Kenneth Branagh’s latest opus, A Haunting In Venice (2023), is his third outing with Agatha Christie following Murder On The Orient Express (2017) and Death On The Nile (2022). Branagh’s… Read more »
Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers (2023), David Yates’ exposé of big pharmaceuticals, blatantly takes Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) as its aesthetic blueprint. Produced for the streaming giant Netflix, Pain Hustlers… Read more »
Pennywise: The Story Of IT
So many people my age have memories of a sleepover, usually around Halloween, where we watched It (1990) with our friends. Someone’s mom or dad had rented It with a… Read more »
Totally Killer
To put it in a totally reductive context, Totally Killer (2023) combines David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) with Back To The Future (1985) in order to simultaneously cash-in on 80s… Read more »
Ticket To Paradise
Ticket To Paradise (2022) attempts to recreate the charm of the nineties romantic comedy firstly by casting Julia Roberts and George Clooney in the lead roles, then by combining the… Read more »
Jolt
Kate Beckinsale is one of those performers that is quite good in everything they appear in though what films they appear in tend to be mediocre. Throughout her entire career… Read more »
