Paul Schrader has been working towards a comeback for a while, now. In 2013, he released The Canyons, a crowd-funded micro-budget experiment written by Bret Easton Ellis that had a more fascinating- and highly troubled- production backstory than it did a screen story. In 2014, there was Dying of the Light, his Nicolas Cage-starring thriller […]

Spike Lee had one of the most impressive filmmaking runs in history from 1989 to 1995 with Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, and Clockers. All six of those films contained a voice that was singular, one that represented an under-represented minority during a time that needed it- even […]

Mission Impossible: Fallout is part six of the action/thriller franchise based on the 1960’s television show that producers Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner first adapted way back in 1996. Since that film, there has been a succession of great directors involved who have passed the torch down to one another with each new entry. Brian […]

Christopher Robin is a sweet movie and its concept is an adorable one: a grown-up Christopher Robin has lost sight of what’s important in life, but is revisited by his childhood pal, Winnie the Pooh, and given a new outlook.  Good-natured and well intentioned, the film should have been an emotionally moving powerhouse about the […]

It’s appropriate that this completely self-serving and subjective list of my favorite movies be a starting point for this website. Lists say a lot about a person. What this list says about me, exactly, I will leave to the judgment of all two of the site’s readers (pardon me for getting optimistic).   All I’ll say […]

Sorry to Bother You is amongst the most daring, original, and biting American social satires produced in recent or long-term memory. It makes last year’s excellent racial satire/thriller, Get Out, seem downright simple in comparison. Reality television, the trappings of hidden modern-day slavery in the workplace, the lack of racial identify that results from succumbing […]

Distorted had promise. The idea of Christina Ricci and John Cusack pairing for a psychological thriller about twisted perspectives of reality is, indeed, an intriguing one. The intrigue is also supported by its premise: Lauren (Ricci), a young woman mourning the loss of her infant daughter while struggling with bipolar depression, moves into an upscale […]

The secret to enjoying a movie like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is to have no expectations of it.  Considering it’s the sequel to a reboot/continuation of a trilogy that started in the nineties, that’s not too hard of a task. What should be worn out and dull by now is surprisingly engaging, however.  Fallen Kingdom […]

In spite of all the films released in 2017, the year will most likely go down in movie history as the year of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Not that there weren’t plenty of great movies being made (there were actually quite a few of them), it’s just that nobody seemed talk about them quite […]

2013 brought on an endless supply of great movies from (then-) emerging or already-established filmmaking giants. It is the most recent year for American movies that brings about the most hope for their future. This is both encouraging and mildly disheartening, considering that the years since have only contained a few sporadic masterworks each, and […]