Captain America and Superhero movies – No End in Sight
Of Course Captain America took the box office this weekend even though the weekend isn’t over. All that’s left is the final total where we’re all meant to stagger backwards – shock and awe at the size...
View ArticleVocativ Hands out Awards for Film Critics, Uses Faulty System
Someone was bound to, sooner or later, come down on the critics for one thing or another. So these two writers, Adam K Raymond and Matan Gilat, decided to gather up all of the Metacritic scores and...
View ArticleNew Voices in Film Criticism: Tasha Robinson at The Dissolve
The Dissolve’s Tasha Robinson writes up a brilliant piece about female characters in films who are supposed to be “strong” but who, in the end, really are just your usual backseat babe, making the...
View ArticleWith Respect, a Counter to Kenneth Turan’s Boyhood Dissent
Kenneth Turan writes what I think is a fair dissent of the uniform critical opinion of Boyhood. And indeed, had he written his review, and had it gone on Metacritic, Boyhood’s score would not be a...
View ArticleOscars 2015: Goodbye to Film Criticism
Film criticism has been taking a hit for the past ten years since the internet exploded. We’ve been writing about this subject for years because we’ve been here from the beginning of the sweeping...
View ArticlePutting the Gotham Nominations in Perspective in Terms of Oscar Race
The Gotham awards used to come so early in the race no one paid much attention to them. Back then, the National Board of Review seemed too early. Now that the race is being covered by way too many...
View ArticleHow Twitter Impacts and Shapes the Critics Awards
2019 has been a wide open year for the Oscar race, in all categories. That means ALL CATEGORIES. There is no clear frontrunner at the moment. We can measure, to a degree, what we know by what the past...
View Article‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is the Perfect Film to Bring Us Back to Theaters
For many of us, the movie theater provides a sense of shelter. A refuge from our daily lives. It’s part of what we love about the movie-going experience: escapism. We turn on, tune in, drop out, and...
View ArticleRidley Scott’s ‘House of Gucci’ Is Dressed to Kill, But Could Use Some Tailoring
There is a lot to unpack in House of Gucci, Ridley Scott’s outrageous real-life story of crime and passion surrounding the Italian fashion dynasty. It is a bizarre and outlandish soap opera that has...
View ArticleVolcanoes Erupt and Love Endures in National Geographic’s ‘Fire of Love’
In the summer of 1991, Katia and Maurice Krafft, a fearless French couple who shared a passionate love for nature, volcanoes, and each other, met their untimely deaths while studying the Unzen volcano...
View ArticleThe Nantucket Film Festival: Day One
In 2019, I had the privilege of attending the Nantucket Film Festival (NFF), which takes place on the quaint and posh Massachusetts island about 30 miles south from Cape Cod. While Nantucket is widely...
View ArticleThe Nantucket Film Festival: Day Two
Documentaries made up a good portion of my second day at NFF. I started bright and early with Netflix’s powerful film, Descendant. The film chronicles the ancestors of those who survived the last ship...
View ArticleThe Nantucket Film Festival: Day Three
In 1993, Bearsden Academy, a state secondary school in an affluent suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, welcomed 16-year-old Brandon Lee to its flock. Brandon was a transfer student from Canada, where he had...
View ArticleThe Nantucket Film Festival: Day Four
Day four at Nantucket would prove to be the best day of the festival. Aside from some great films, the Screenwriters Tribute highlighted the celebrations today. Those receiving honors this year include...
View ArticleThe Nantucket Film Festival: Day Five
Day five would wrap things up for me on the ground at the Nantucket Film Festival. It’s been an exciting barrage of great films and entertainment, and I am very thankful to all the showrunners and...
View ArticleJordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ Is Well-Crafted, Accessible Entertainment
Jordan Peele’s debut film, Get Out, might be an achievement he never gets out from under. A modern-day horror masterpiece, Get Out is one of the single best directorial introductions of the 21st...
View ArticleThe Quiet Epidemic Is an Infuriating and Alarming Call to Action in the War...
“The Lyme Borrelia bacterium is one of the smartest bacteria on the planet. This organism knows how to change forms. It knows how to hide.” The Quiet Epidemic is one of the most terrifying and...
View ArticleBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever is a Tender Ode to Chadwick Boseman, Full of...
Chadwick Boseman’s untimely and tragic death came as a shock to many. The Black Panther star kept his four-year battle with colon cancer a secret to the public, so the sudden loss was both...
View ArticleThe Sins of the Father Are Passed Down in Florian Zeller’s ‘The Son’
“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.” – E.A....
View ArticleThe Animals of ‘Inisherin’
I’ve always found myself easier among animals than people. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like parties, but if there’s a dog there, well, I can cope. A few years ago I toured Ernest Hemingway’s...
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