When Joel Schumacher passed on June 22 of this year, it created an unpredictable and substantial void in the world of cinema. In spite of all he accomplished in his near-fifty-year career, his name never fully survived infamy for being the filmmaker responsible for putting nipples on the Batsuit. What those who dwell on his […]

It’s been nearly thirty years since we last saw our favorite pair of dim-witted, big-hearted, time-traveling metalheads grace our screens. As any kid of the eighties already knows, 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is essential viewing. Its brand of off-kilter, feel-good, sci-fi comedy may have been next to commonplace at the time of its […]

The Top 20 Movies of the 2010s: The 2010s was the decade in which movies changed forever. How they are now made, released, shown to and received by audiences is barely recognizable to a decade or two previous when they were king of all popular entertainment/art. In the 2010s, digital officially replaced celluloid at both […]

2019 featured an array of films from rising talents, seasoned greats and everyone in-between. Scorsese, Malick, Gilliam, Almodóvar, Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Greta Gerwig, Gaspar Noé, Harmony Korine, Lorene Scafaria, Jordan Peele, James Mangold, Deon Taylor, Bong Joon-ho, S. Craig Zahler, Taika Waititi and many other notable filmmakers had a hand in creating the perfect closing […]

Because of some pesky behind-the-scenes production squabbles, co-producer/costar Mel Gibson, who had nurtured this film as a personal passion project for years, has chosen to completely distance himself from the released cut of The Professor and the Madman. Cowriter/director Farhad Safinia (in his directorial debut) also took his name off of the film and is […]

We were all heavily anticipating Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman—his long, VFX-heavy and Netflix-funded adaptation of Charles Brandt’s nonfiction narrative book, I Heard You Paint Houses. The book and film examine the life of Frank Sheenan, a mafia hitman who claims to have killed Jimmy Hoffa—the labor union leader to whom he was exceptionally close both […]

Charlize Theron is a straight-laced Secretary of State in preparation to run for the U.S. presidency. She meets Seth Rogen at a party and soon remembers him as the cute little boy next door she used to babysit when she was a teenager. He’s now an (unemployed) extreme left-wing journalist, and she shortly thereafter hires […]

While recently reviewing Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, I was struck with the realization that I am no longer able to separate my love and knowledge of the filmmaker’s career from my opinion of his most recent films. It is very important to note before reviewing his new ten-episode, thirteen-hour Amazon Prime series […]

“Film festivals shouldn’t be about what celebrities are comin’ or what film is gonna get sold. It should be about people gettin’ together and watchin’ movies. And about people who can never get their movies seen havin’ a chance to have it watched… If only once. A good film festival should be something where you […]