Those inclined to immediately exit the theater or press stop on their remotes the instant a film concludes would do well to take a beat…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
My introduction to Bob Clark came through his latter holiday comedy, A Christmas Story, a film I grew up with and still associate with seasonal…
There has been no shortage of Silent Night, Deadly Nights over the years. The original film, released in 1984, proudly wore its ax-toting Santa Claus…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
Kim Byung-woo’s fifth directorial effort, The Great Flood, first shows An-na (Kim Da-mi) resignedly trying to quell her six-year-old son Ja-in’s (Kwon Eun-seong) insistent and…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
In a moment in history increasingly submerged in a swill of irony and pessimism, James L. Brooks’ insistence on goodness feels like the last burst…
Adapted from Freida McFadden’s BookTok sensation and starring two of Hollywood’s most in-demand blonde actresses in Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried (both of whom also…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
We’re back on Pandora, which according to multiple credible reports, still ain’t Kansas. 2022’s The Way of Water proved that James Cameron’s richly imagined and…
Now three movies and seven years into his career as a filmmaker, the Philly transplant/West Village resident Bradley Cooper has featured a singer, a composer,…
“The voices on the phone are real.” So states the caption that appears on screen early in Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab,…
Filmmakers as confident and as distinctive as Bi Gan are rarely as young as he. At just 36 years of age, he’s directed four short…
It feels like many horror films in recent years begin and end in the pitch meeting. A kooky premise is introduced, funding is secured, and…
That George W. Bush’s war on terror was a farce is all but written history. The craven hunt for oil under the guise of WMDs…
One of the quirks of Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon) in James L. Brooks’ 2010 film How Do You Know is a tendency to speak in…
The Old Man and His Car There is a good deal of sentimental value, both real and inflated, in Michael Kam’s The Old Man and…
In a city-state as vibrant and fast-paced as Singapore, the encroachment of work into various facets of social life appears inevitable, so much so that…
If stardom, traditionally, was a superhero who fought the bad guys and saved the world, then the fief of anonymity would fall to their unseen…
There is a good deal of sentimental value, both real and inflated, in Michael Kam’s The Old Man and His Car, most glaringly clued in…