‘The Farewell’ will leave you wanting more
One of the first rules of screenwriting is “write what you know,” but basing a movie on your own life can be harder than it sounds. Real-life experiences don’t always…
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.
One of the first rules of screenwriting is “write what you know,” but basing a movie on your own life can be harder than it sounds. Real-life experiences don’t always…
The Lion King is not a movie. Let me be more specific: Disney’s 2019 remake of The Lion King is not a movie. The 1994 iteration of The Lion King…
If you’re tired of all the live-action Disney remakes, fear not: The Art of Self-Defense is an original film, not a remake of the 1941 Disney short starring Goofy the…
Are you tired of Hollywood movies? Are you also tired of indie films from acclaimed artists, for some reason? Perhaps you’ve strolled past your local theater and wondered what Summer…
“Stuber” is a comedy that puts a new spin on the buddy cop formula: only one of the two is a police officer, and the other is an easily frightened…
After Ari Aster turned heads with Hereditary, his feature film debut, I sought out some of the short films he wrote and directed in his early career. One was Munchausen,…
It’s only been a couple months since the decisive conclusion of Avengers: Endgame, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe is already lurching back into theaters to really end Phase 3 of…
Yesterday is about a singer-songwriter who gets hit by a bus, wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed, and achieves worldwide fame by passing Beatles songs off…
The summer of 2019 has been rather Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with its franchise sequels. The industry’s good face has given us successes like Avengers: Endgame and John Wick:…
Godzilla is supposed to be ancient, but extremely scientific methods tell us that his year of origin was 1954, when he first appeared in the Japanese kaiju film Gojira. That’s…
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, an esoteric avant-garde film, promises a sequel at the end of the credits. It’s rather tongue-in-cheek—on the cinematic spectrum, The Souvenir is the polar opposite of…
If Batman is the hero that we deserve but don’t need right now, John Wick is the opposite. For years, moviegoers have been obsessing over mediocre action films and shelling…