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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …