Review: There’s not a lot going on inside ‘Chaos Walking’
It’s easy to see what initially attracted Charlie Kaufman to Chaos Walking. The filmmaker behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I’m Thinking of Ending Things wrote the original…
It’s easy to see what initially attracted Charlie Kaufman to Chaos Walking. The filmmaker behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I’m Thinking of Ending Things wrote the original…
Did you know Anna and Elsa aren’t technically considered “Disney Princesses”? The Frozen franchise is so bankable on its own that Disney Animation separated it from the overall Princess brand.…
Reviewing Minari is like explaining the sunset. I could explain at length how molecules and particles in the atmosphere affect the direction of light rays, scattering colors across the sky…
Saint Maud was one of the most promising films of early 2020. A grim, psychological horror where the evil is coming from inside the godly, à la the terrifying religious…
Colson Baker — aka Machine Gun Kelly — kicked off 2021 with his directorial debut, the 49-minute musical film Downfalls High. Downfalls High, available first on Facebook, is narrated by…
Pieces of a Woman is the English-language debut of Kata Wéber and Kornél Mundruczó, the Hungarian writer-director team behind White God, a film told from the perspective of a dog,…
There’s a reason the rape-revenge genre is so straightforwardly named. When you’re dealing with such distressing violence, blindsiding the audience is unadvised—you’re already putting them through a lot. It takes…
Wonder Woman was a treat, wasn’t it? It’s truly special when a blockbuster can tap into something universal. After its release in 2017, viewers worldwide reported bursting into spontaneous tears…
“You haven’t cried enough this year!” threatened Pixar, dropping a movie at the tail end of 2020. “Yes, we definitely have!” we all replied, because we definitely have, and shedding…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of the August Wilson play of the same name, is the final film appearance of Chadwick Boseman. The loss of such an enormously talented…
Wives in crime films have had a notoriously rough go of it. Just ask Kay Adams, wife of Mafia don Michael Corleone for half The Godfather trilogy. Though she’s promised…
A musical! A musical’s the thing! A glitzy, upbeat production full of elaborate dance numbers and positive vibes—that’s the cure for the 2020 blues. Well, that and a vaccine, but…