Django & Django
During the opening of Django & Django (2021) Quentin Tarantino reveals that after completing his film Inglourious Basterds (2009) he contemplated writing a book on the westerns of Sergio Corbucci…. Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Thor: Love & Thunder
Thor: Love & Thunder (2022) sees Taika Waititi return to Disney’s Marvel franchise as writer and director. This time out Waititi channels his love of 80s Steven Spielberg/Amblin family films… Read more »
Three Thousand Years of Longing
In Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) filmmaker George Miller indulges in sexual tourism and orientalism to adapt A.S. Byatt’s short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. Miller’s investigation… Read more »
Nope
Nope (2022) is Jordan Peele’s most entertaining film yet. It may not feature the complex social commentary of his earlier films, but it is a lot more fun. Nope is… Read more »
The Last Movie Stars
Ethan Hawke’s six-part documentary series on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward The Last Movie Stars (2022) is framed around the transcripts that screenwriter Stewart Stern made of interviews he conducted… Read more »
Light & Magic
With regards to special effects Industrial Light & Magic has been the cutting edge and industry standard since George Lucas founded it in 1975 to work on his film Star… Read more »
Prey
When the buzz around Prey (2022) first started to go around social media I became very excited having wrongly assumed audiences had rediscovered Norman J. Warren’s film from 1977. Dan… Read more »
Honor Society
Honor (Angourie Rice), a high school senior, dreams of getting as far away from her hometown as she can once she graduates. When she learns that the creepy guidance counselor… Read more »
The Gray Man
In the opening scene of The Gray Man (2022), Billy Bob Thornton’s CIA handler says to Ryan Gosling’s con and soon to be secret agent “I get it, you’re glib”,… Read more »
Girl In The Picture
The picture that filmmaker Skye Borgman draws in her true crime documentary Girl In The Picture (2022) is one of a misogynist system that utterly fails to protect women. Social… Read more »
