Category: Reviews
Ready Player One a Fun, Contemplative Work
Ready Player One dumps pop culture over its audience’s head like a baby playing with a bowl of spaghetti. You’re not just immersed into it – you’re lathered with it. It stays with you like stink on a skunk. You retreat to it, hide in it, elope with it off to for a happy few…
Forgotten Classics: Radio Flyer
You’ll see many movies in your lifetime. Some, like The Godfather, you’ll remember for a lifetime. Others, like Mr Woodcock, might leave you horrified that you actually paid money to see them. And then there are the movies that have stuck with you, even though they flew under everybody else’s radar. That’s what this series is…
Cat People Turns 75 – Celebrating the Legacy of Val Lewton
Last year filmmakers, film historians, film critics and hardcore cinephiles across the world celebrated the 75th Diamond Anniversary of the film the American Film Institute calls the “greatest motion picture ever made”: Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941). Lead actor, director, co-writer and co-producer Welles brought the film to life when he was only in his…
Review: ‘Downsizing’ Goes Big with Ideas But Stays Small in Execution
Alexander Payne’s 2017 science-fiction picture Downsizing is so cleverly conceived you might forget how poorly made it is. Undoubtedly, it’s not a horrible movie. In fact, it’s quite watchable, though it drags at certain points and has its share of frustrating moments. The problem is that it should have been better, given the talent behind…
The Disaster Artist is a true gift for fans of The Room
I’ve rarely seen an audience respond to a film as raucously as I did at a recent preview screening of James Franco’s new film, The Disaster Artist. And it’s hard to blame them. This comedic account of the making of The Room by Tommy Wiseau, the most celebrated bad film to grace the silver screen…