I love good film noir. As a fan of genre pictures, film noir is among my favorite genres. Philip Marlowe, of course, gets my noir senses going. The character created by Raymond Chandler has been played by legendary actors like Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Robert Mitchum in Farewell, …
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Please don’t talk to me about the death of creative, well-made cinema. It’s still alive. You have to look for it. A great place to start is genre films, particularly horror. Horror films provide some of the most exciting, inventive filmmakers at work today. Filmmakers like Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, …
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The merits of supposed Marvel fatigue can be debated, but Kevin Feige doesn’t think so. Marvel movies post Avengers Endgame (though technically, No Way From Home ended Phase 3) have done well at the box office. The latest Ant-Man is set to do well this weekend at the box office …
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Expectations are a bitch. Christmas 1996 was when Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! was released. The Summer of 1996 was dominated by Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, which helped revive big-budget alien invasion disaster movies. It was a phenomenon, and by Christmas 1996, out on VHS. With it so fresh in people’s …
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The idea of paying to see a movie you’ve seen a dozen times before to see it in theaters might seem like a waste of money to some, but in these days of anxiety about the future of movie theaters, I now almost relish the chance to check out older …
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious. – Vince Lombardi Oliver Stone invokes various opinions from …
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Perhaps no film was released in 2022 that accompanied more controversy than Andrew Dominik’s Blonde. Blonde is not done in a typical biopic with a rise and fall. It doesn’t have the familiar narrative beats. Any time you deal with a movie about an iconic subject or person who was …
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Today’s Unsung Cinema is a film from 1995 based on a true story where Scottish clans face off against greedy, narcissistic English noblemen. No, it’s not the 1995 winner of Best Picture Braveheart, which was a tremendous international success. It’s Michael Caton Jones’s Rob Roy starring Liam Neeson and Tim …
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When you think Farrelly Brothers movies, you think Green Book. Just kidding, you think Dumb & Dumber, and There’s Something About Mary. You think of Harry & Lloyd selling a dead parrot to a blind kid or Cameron Diaz with Ben Stiller’s jizz in her hair. Both those films were …
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Neither terrible nor great, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest Knock at the Cabin represents a return to a more minimalist setting like 2002’s Signs. Focusing on a few characters in a confined, secluded location with more significant events abound. Only this time, instead of aliens invading, there’s the presence of four …
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