Review - Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2019: Animation
Caught my second ever screening of IFC Center’s annual Oscar Animated Shorts Showcase. Once again, this year’s nominees (with one major...
The ramblings of a wannabe cineaste. Join me as I dissect the art of storytelling in films, comics, TV shows, and video games.
Caught my second ever screening of IFC Center’s annual Oscar Animated Shorts Showcase. Once again, this year’s nominees (with one major...
At its core, all of Chantal Akerman’s most renowned work is about observation. This is true of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080...
Free Solo is a fantastic documentary, both breathtakingly beautiful and heart-stoppingly harrowing; it’s an absolute sin that “Best...
Tonight, Metrograph continued its Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective with a screening of Café Lumière, a film commissioned to commemorate the...
Werner Herzog: And so, Earth spins silently in its dark void, cold and indifferent to the parasites that have taken up residence on its...
Adult Version of Protagonist: And that's the story of the summer that changed our lives forever. Unfortunately, me and the guys kind of...
Recently, Rian Johnson has developed a reputation as the director that singlehandedly ruined Star Wars forever. And I think that’s...
Caught a screening of Three Times. True to its title, this immaculately-crafted Taiwanese anthology film is split into three episodes,...
[WARNING: The following review contains SPOILERS!] Despite the caustic critical reception it’s attracted, I think Glass is a perfectly...
Following this morning’s announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees, I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. I decided to...
Since it’s currently about sixteen degrees Fahrenheit outside, I decided to stay indoors and enjoy one of my Christmas gifts: Don’t...
Popped in another Christmas present (though I purchased this one myself, using an Amazon gift card—thanks, Tom the DP): Arrow Video’s...
Out of all the movies I received as Christmas gifts, I was most excited to watch True Stories. I’ve been dying to experience this...
Premise: When lifelong pals Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, through sheer dumb luck and no shortage of bumbling, manage to...
A sadistic serial killer, known only as “The Ghost” due to his ability to strike without warning and vanish without a trace, stalks the...
Premise: Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Only the Avatar, the bridge between the worlds of humans and spirits, reincarnated throughout the ages,...
It’s the government’s dirty little secret: a rehabilitation program for super-powered criminals, offering reduced prison sentences in...
You are Ichi—blind masseur, lonesome wanderer, deadly swordsman. You long for a life of peace, but wherever you go, you inevitably find...
Plot: Years after discovering his true heritage, Kal-El (Henry Cavill), now a full-time protector of the innocent, unearths a lost marvel...
Premise: A kid-friendly remake of The Big Lebowski, which features The Dude’s young son (the result of his brief fling with Maude...