When Disney was drumming up buzz for Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, some suit described it as “meta, something self-referential and cool,” instantly outing the project as corporate and uncool.…
Whoever suggested that Marvel revive the Sam Raimi Spider-Man characters is perfecting their backstroke through hundred-dollar bills right now, so it’s only natural that the studio would bring Raimi himself…
The films of Robert Eggers are junctures of myth and reality, each in its own way. The Witch is a slow-burn reveal that its myth is real, and The Lighthouse…
Now that superhero movies are the biggest thing in Hollywood (they accounted for a third of all domestic ticket sales last year) and one of the industry’s most contentious topics…
“Butter” (Blue Fox Entertainment), based on the book by Phoenix native Erin Jade Lange, follows the trials and tribulations of a talented, sax-playing, good-natured high-school junior. But for all his talents,…
Cyrano, the musical starring Peter Dinklage as the man himself and Haley Bennett as his beloved Roxane, was written by Peter’s wife and directed by Haley’s husband. Creative teams should…
1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was a reckoning with violence as art. Such a stark depiction of senseless violence was anathema to American cinema. People didn’t know what to…
Disney-owned Death on the Nile hews closely to the Agatha Christie novel, save for one notable exception: it begins with an origin story for detective Poirot’s mustache. It’s far more…
I like to think that Joel Coen adapted Macbeth out of sheer pettiness, seeing as his brother and longtime collaborator took a break from filmmaking to “focus on theater”. Or,…
Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, feels like Boogie Nights and moves like Inherent Vice. Tonally, it’s more buoyant and freewheeling than anything he’s made since Boogie; structurally, it shaggy…
Unlike Into the Spider-Verse, which felt like passion leaping from page to screen, the multiversal mayhem of Spider-Man: No Way Home feels palpably born of corporate synergy. The decision to…
The Academy awarded Guillermo del Toro Best Picture for a movie about romancing a fish, so he’s thrown Hollywood a bone with Nightmare Alley, a noir morality play about the…
