I tend not to get lost in discussions of how films are marketed. If you’re dumb enough to fall for a film’s marketing campaign or don’t understand that trailers quite […]
I have some very pointed questions to ask devoted players of video games who actually look forward to the occasional film adaptations of those games. And while these are serious […]
If you ever get the opportunity to begin your day in a conversation with actor/writer/producer/all-around horror aficionado Barbara Crampton, I’d recommend you do so. The official occasion for my most […]
In these modern times, it is notoriously difficult to make a quality romcom (ahem, Marry Me). Relationships begin and end with little more than a swipe these days, and in […]
Sometimes film reviews are hard to write. Especially, at least for me, reviews for films I don’t have strong feelings about one way or another. Finding ways to say, “Meh, […]
Every year, a couple dozen of our country’s best and brightest are recognized as MacArthur Fellows; colloquially, it’s known as the “Genius Grant,” a no-strings-attached gift of $625,000 (raised in […]
Is it possible to make a coming-of-age film about a grown woman? Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31; Thelma) achieves just that in The Worst Person in the World, a beautifully […]
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh continues his streak of being “retired” from making movies by releasing what I believe is his fourth or fifth movie in a row directly to a streaming […]
Yes, the Sundance Film Festival ended more than two weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t still thinking about the films we saw during this year’s all-virtual event. In […]
If the people who made the new political thriller Blacklight had any guts, the story would have been told from the perspective of journalist Mira Jones (Emmy Raver-Lampman, The Umbrella […]
Taking a slightly more serious, but no less stylized, approach to the crime-solving adventures of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (played as he was in the Murder on the Orient Express […]
For film critics and other careful observers of film over the last year or so, there’s been something of a game we play, especially when it comes to watching smaller […]