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 »
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 »
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 (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 »
Andreas Koefoed’s The Lost Leonardo (2021) frames the mysteries and scandals surrounding the Salvator Mundi like a true crime documentary. It’s a slick film with a pointed messaging. Koefoed answers… Read more »
Jordan Peele’s production of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021) renews the themes of Bernard Rose’s original film from 1992 while also proposing that folklore and trauma, intrinsically linked, are both equal… Read more »
Respect (2021) is a typical biographical drama. It distills a fraction of Aretha Franklin’s life into a series of melodramatic beats that get little or no exploration. Any transcendency to… Read more »
CODA (2021) tells the story of a hearing girl, Ruby (Emilia Jones), and her relationship with her deaf family of fisherman when she decides in her senior year of high… Read more »
Leos Carax returns to the cinema with his most ambitious project yet. Annette (2021) is a rock opera by Ron and Russell Mael (the band Sparks for those few who… Read more »
David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) attempts to locate a 21st century version of morality in adapting the Arthurian poem. Consent, honor and selflessness prevail in Lowery’s version surprisingly well… Read more »
Early on in Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021) someone says something like “Sparks is a band whose wikipedia article you could read and still know nothing about them”…. Read more »