Drug drama ‘The Infiltrator’ starts slow, pays off
It’s quite rare that I know little about a movie before I’m watching it. Normally I’m reminding myself of a film’s writer and director before the opening credits have a…
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.
It’s quite rare that I know little about a movie before I’m watching it. Normally I’m reminding myself of a film’s writer and director before the opening credits have a…
Voice actor casting can make or break a movie. In The Secret Life of Pets, it was a huge distraction for me. The voice behind central dog Max is Louis…
A lone man prepares to hang himself, stranded on a small island for who knows how long. He tightens his noose, sings a song from his childhood, and prepares to…
Movies have an uncanny ability to transport you to another time. Steven Spielberg, irrefutably one of the greatest living directors, has created this feeling in film masterfully over the years.…
Up until the moment the movie started, I had assumed The Legend of Tarzan was a reimagining of Disney’s 1999 animated classic Tarzan — in the same vein as recent…
2016 must hold some record by now for terrible sequels. I’ve seen 42 of the year’s movies, and of the five worst, four have a colon in their title. These…
I have never seen so many people walk out of a movie before. And I once saw the midnight showing of The Last Airbender. Granted, The Neon Demon — Nicolas…
There are different kinds of cinematic comedies. Some, like the films of the illustrious Edgar Wright, are masterworks that design groundbreaking methods to make moviegoers laugh. Others subvert real life…
How does one make a sequel to a beloved movie? Go bigger? Go funnier? Do the same thing all over again? Or just throw every idea at the wall and…
From the first day of 2016, I was more excited for The Conjuring 2 than most of the year’s upcoming movies. No, I’m not a huge fan of horror movies.…
You know how some movies open with a massive scene that explodes all over the screen, not letting up until the title appears? Indiana Jones has its boulder roll; The…
Few genres have built-in audiences like romantic movies do. I could write an essay on how Me Before You is the most horrifyingly awful piece of trash to poison the…