To put it simply, Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War is a devastatingly sad anti-war drama. Based on actual events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese woman was kidnapped from her village by a squad of American soldiers who raped and murdered her. It’s essentially about …

January is usually associated with studios dumping their garbage in theaters. January and February are traditionally known as “dump months.” Movies that nobody in the studio is high about forcing them into theaters with little fanfare. That’s recently started to change somewhat, with genre films seeing success in January, like …

I’m a fan of Eddie Murphy. I’m a fan of Jonah Hill. I’m a fan of pairing them together in a comedy. This sounds like it could be comedy gold. Unfortunately, You People is too poorly put together in screenplay and production values to warrant a recommendation. The film by …

It’s perhaps a cliche saying, but they do not make films like Stanley Kubrick’s lavish epic Barry Lyndon. I dare say it’s the best-looking film ever made from a production standpoint. Each shot is so carefully crafted and framed that every frame is like a painting coming to life. The …

Inspired by a recent episode of Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary’s podcast The Video Archives, I decided to review Bob Fosse’s 1983 film Star 80. Fosse was known for his musical films like All That Jazz, Cabaret, and Sweet Charity. He also did the Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny which could …

I’ve long had a fascination with Stanley Kubrick and his films. He’s one of my all-time favorite filmmakers. On my Mount Rushmore of greatest filmmakers. The thing that grabbed me first when I watched them when I was younger was the uniqueness of Kubrick’s cinematic craft. His distinct imprint is …

Many people are mourning the declining quality of modern-day cinema, but the horror genre is not only alive and well but bustling. Just in 2022 alone, we’ve had The Black Phone, Nope, X & Pearl, The Menu, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bones and All, and Crimes of the Future. However, Barbarian …

Tragicomedies straddle the lines of funny and devastating. The idea is that there are humorous moments to be found in places of human suffering. The suffering in The Banshees of Inisherin includes lost friendship, loneliness, inadequacy, and the ever-present reality of death. Thanks to Martin McDonagh’s searingly funny screenplay, the …

January is traditionally the time when studios release their garbage to the public. Some of these movies do pretty well as counter-programming to the prestige awards movies also out at this time. M3gan is one of those movies, and its recent box office success proves that genre films still are …