Cyrano
The oft told (and adapted) tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxanne and Christian de Neuvillette gets the musical treatment courtesy of The National and director Joe Wright. The project originated… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
At its core The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022) is just like most Nicolas Cage movies made in the last ten years; a boiler plate thriller for the direct… Read more »
Everything Everywhere All At Once
It’s become increasingly rare that a Hollywood blockbuster is as intelligent as it is funny and as visually imaginative as it is deeply moving. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s (stylized… Read more »
The Lost City
In promoting her latest picture actor and producer Sandra Bullock has, while defending her modestly budgeted romantic comedy, attacked the major studios in Hollywood. Bullock makes the case that her… Read more »
Marry Me
Marry Me (2022) is a film that wears its influences on its sleeve; it’s part James L. Brooks and part Nancy Meyers. Marry Me brings the romantic comedy of the… Read more »
Deep Water
After a twenty year absence Adrian Lyne has returned to filmmaking. Deep Water (2022) is nowhere near Lyne’s masterpiece, Jacob’s Ladder (1990), but it never pretends to be. What Lyne… Read more »
Autumn Girl
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Autumn Girl (2021) is an imagined week in the life of the legendary Polish actress and cabaret singer Kalina Jędrusik (Maria Dębska). Though set in the early sixties,… Read more »
The Adam Project
Ryan Reynolds’ latest vehicle, directed by Shawn Levy, The Adam Project (2022) sees the star backing off of his sarcastic motor-mouth persona to embrace a project that is 100% nostalgia…. Read more »
The Night Clerk
Michael Cristofer’s film The Night Clerk (2020), a Netflix original, takes more than a few cues from the films of Brian De Palma. The Night Clerk employs both Hitchcockian and… Read more »
The Batman
I like Batman; though I haven’t really been invested in the comics since Grant Morrison ended his run in 2014. The rhetoric around Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022) primarily focuses… Read more »
