You Can Call Me Bill
Alexandre O. Phillippe’s You Can Call Me Bill (2024) finds its subject, William Shatner, thinking about the end of his life, global warming, and a career spent entertaining the world… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Against The Grain
Against The Grain (2023) isn’t just a special feature on Vinegar Syndrome’s Lost Picture Show boxed set, it’s a film that is both a lover letter to and a history… Read more »
Drive-Away Dolls
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke have made their debut fiction feature together. It’s called Drive-Away Dolls and it follows two women on a road trip who get caught up with… Read more »
Madame Web
Madame Web (2024) would make an ideal case study in studio meddling and second guessing. The sloppy ADR, unfinished special effects and soulless characterization do little to elevate the incoherent… Read more »
A Disturbance In The Force
I think having an intellectual property (be it a novel, a film or album) that you really and truly love is very important. If there’s a work of art that… Read more »
Dune: Part Two
Before going to see Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024) this last weekend I revisited David Lynch’s Dune (1984). No film is going to match the style of Lynch’s kinky… Read more »
Ferrari
Michael Mann has found his double in Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver). Ferrari (2023) is a portrait of a man driven to achieve perfection at the cost of relationships, humanity, and… Read more »
Napoleon
It’s impossible to watch Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon (2023) and not compare it to Abel Gance’s epic masterpiece Napoléon (1927). By comparison Scott’s film feels heavy and directionless; a behemoth… Read more »
The Holdovers
When The Holdovers (2023) came out in November I heard that the film was Alexander Payne’s love letter to the Hal Ashby classic The Last Detail (1973). So like any… Read more »
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 »
