Shang-Chi
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), or simply Shang-Chi, is but another film in Disney’s long line of Marvel Comics movies. As Disney continues to mine its… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Happiest Season
Acclaimed actress turned filmmaker Clea DuVall helmed Happiest Season (2020); the holiday romantic comedy that broke major ground for the representation of queer women. This has secured Happiest Season a… Read more »
Passing
Rebecca Hall’s debut feature film as a writer and director, Passing (2021), is a delicate and deeply moving drama. It took Hall’s experience as an actor to properly adapt Nella… Read more »
Spencer
Pablo Larraín’s film Spencer (2021) is a fictionalized account of Princess Diana’s (Kristen Stewart) Christmas with the royal family in 1991. Larraín’s film is a classic character study that charts… Read more »
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest feature, The French Dispatch (2021), is an anthology modeled on an issue of fictional magazine (whose name is shared with the film’s title) that itself is modeled… Read more »
Dune: Part One
Denis Villeneuve’s attempt at filming the allegedly unfilmable science fiction novel by Frank Herbert is something of a mixed bag. Dune: Part One (2021) takes itself very seriously, dispensing with… Read more »
No Time To Die
Like so many actors before him the time has come for Daniel Craig to close the book on James Bond. When Daniel Craig first appeared on screen in the classic… Read more »
Halloween Kills
The second of three films that David Gordon Green is directing for Blumhouse Productions, Halloween Kills (2021), revisits a number of themes and narrative elements that have appeared previously in… Read more »
Free Guy
Released by Disney through their 20th Century Studios banner, Free Guy (2021) is an ode to the value of intellectual properties and their creators. Ironically, even though the film idealizes… Read more »
The Ripper
The Ripper (2020) is a four-part documentary series by Ellena Wood and Jesse Vile about the Yorkshire Ripper that was released via Netflix. Formally The Ripper plays out like any… Read more »
