‘Ad Astra’ crashes under its compulsion to over-explain
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…
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.
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…
Strippers are extraordinarily talented people. Pole dancing is a fine art and a difficult sport, dealing with strip club clientele takes unlimited patience, and only working nights can wear even…
You’re a serious person, sitting down to see a serious movie. A movie based on a novel—a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, no less! You settle in, readying your mind for high…
A number of book adaptations have been needlessly split into two movies—the final entries of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games come to mind—but if any book needed bisection, it…
Of all the movies coming out this weekend, the documentary about water probably isn’t high on your priority list. But perhaps I can convince you otherwise. Aquarela is the latest…
Representation is a double-edged sword in the entertainment industry, in that it’s deeply necessary but so often handled poorly. Let’s look at queerness in television, for example. The LGBTQ community…
The summer movie season should be wrapping up, but since humanity is preparing to endure an endless summer, we’re still getting fun summer movies! Always focus on the sunny side.…
The director plays a lot of roles on a film set. It’s their job to translate script to screen, which can manifest in a variety of ways: working in conjunction…
This should be a simple review: do you think it’s funny when little kids swear and say sex stuff? Boy, do I have the movie for you. Do you think…
Well, October is a few months away, so it’s time for Hollywood to start rolling out the Halloween movies! This year’s spooky pregame is Scary Stories to Tell in the…
They’ve gone and done it. They made a movie out of Dora the Explorer. When the trailer for a movie premieres at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, it’s usually a…
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Eugenio Derbez, an accomplished actor and comedian who Variety once called “the most influential Hispanic male in the entertainment industry”. He’s…