Review: ‘The Irishman’ is masterful moviemaking
Martin Scorsese has something important on his mind. No, not Marvel movies; he’s made it clear that those are dangerously unimportant. It’s legacy. Scorsese’s career has long been inextricable from…
Ryan Bordow is a lifelong art enthusiast whose biggest passions include writing movies and writing about movies. He studied both film production and media analysis at Arizona State University. Visit his personal website sittinginthecinema.com for more of his thoughts on film. When he’s not writing, he enjoys the study of theology and philosophy, and traveling the world whenever he can afford it.
Martin Scorsese has something important on his mind. No, not Marvel movies; he’s made it clear that those are dangerously unimportant. It’s legacy. Scorsese’s career has long been inextricable from…
The Shining is an odd title for The Shining. In both Stephen King’s novel and Stanley Kubrick’s film, “shining” is shorthand for the psychic abilities possessed by Danny Torrance, the…
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Motherless Brooklyn is a 1999 novel that takes place in the 1999. The film rights were acquired in 2001, and now—after a nearly two-decade development—it’s a 2019 movie that takes…
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Thomasin McKenzie, a rising actress who starred in last year’s Leave No Trace and this year’s Jojo Rabbit, in addition to a…
Taika Waititi’s reputation has undergone a major facelift lately. Three years ago, he was mostly known in indie circles—and in his home country of New Zealand—but just a year later,…
Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch (or The VVitch, if you’re into stylized titles) came out at a time when a new genre of horror was emerging: ‘prestige horror’, or…
Maleficent may have been Disney’s final act of good before completing their turn to the dark side. Sure, they can buy enough studios and filmmakers to randomly generate a good…
Film and television are very different mediums. The age of binge streaming has diluted their differences, to an extent—some showrunners now pace their shows as if they were super long…
The protagonist of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver was almost a villain. Travis Bickle, a working-class man who’s sick of the moral decline of New York City, turned to violence to…
The Peoria Film Fest announced details of its opening night cocktail party, followed by a screening of 101 Studios’ The Current War: Director’s Cut. Modern Round will provide food for the…
Studios have a hard time marketing James Gray movies. His style errs toward methodical, downbeat, and ruminative—not exactly the kind of thing that makes the big bucks. And so for…