Asteroid City
Wes Anderson continues to explore the synthesis between high camp visuals and dead pan existentialism with a flare for miniature photography and jukebox scores in the science fiction film Asteroid… Read more »
Tag: Tom Hanks
You’ve Got Mail
You’ve Got Mail (1998) is one of the bonafide popular classics of the “golden age” of romantic comedies. Nora Ephron’s remake of The Shop Around The Corner (1940) updates Illatszertár… Read more »
The ‘Burbs
Few American comedies in the second half of the twentieth century are as enjoyable as they are witty. Joe Dante’s classic satirical horror spoof The ‘Brubs (1989) is one of… Read more »
Band Of Brothers
Band Of Brothers (2001) is now twenty years old. When it first aired on HBO Band Of Brothers epitomized the movement towards the cinematic in American television that had begun… Read more »
Charlie Wilson’s War
Mike Nichols’ film career as a director has been as long as it is varied. In fact I find many of his films to be either overrated, such as The Graduate… Read more »
Sleepless In Seattle
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub once said “there is no such thing as film history”. Films only really exist as we watch them, as we play back the footage. If there is… Read more »
