Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of Southern Californian youth in the early seventies, Licorice Pizza (2021), is the filmmaker’s most tender film to date. Licorice Pizza doesn’t carry the tension or… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Scream
Scream (1996) is the quintessential nineties horror film. Scream had the hippest soundtrack, a sadistically ironic sense of humor, a legendary cast of then up and coming young stars and… Read more »
Death On The Nile
The COVID-19 pandemic delayed Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile (2022), the sequel to his Murder On The Orient Express (2017), again and again for two whole years. Presumably this… Read more »
Spider-Man: No Way Home
What is Disney’s Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) about? Well, it’s about a Spider-Man with immense corporate backing and access to state of the art technology who selfishly uses his… Read more »
Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched
Kier-La Janisse’s documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) is 192 minute epic that lays behind Severin’s best home video release to date; the All… Read more »
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Sony Pictures is apparently pretty desperate to make a Ghostbusters revival happen. Audiences, in a fervor of sexism and hatred, killed the Paul Feig reboot of 2016 forcing Sony Pictures… Read more »
Landscapers
In 1998 Susan Edwards (Olivia Colman) and her husband Christopher (David Thewlis) murdered Susan’s parents and stole £300K from them. They spent this money living abroad in Paris on Hollywood… Read more »
Tick, Tick… Boom!
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021) is an adaptation of David Auburn’s adaptation of Jonathan Lason’s stage musical of the same name. Miranda’s debut is about what one would… Read more »
The Beatles: Get Back
Walt Disney Studios has taken the hundreds of hours of film that Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed in January of 1969 and turned it over to the filmmaker responsible for bringing Tolkien… Read more »
House Of Gucci
Screenwriter Becky Johnston adapted House Of Gucci (2021) from Sara Gay Forden’s novel of the same name. It’s an uneven screenplay that has as many wonderfully satirical moments as it… Read more »
