It’s difficult to think of a more cynical, creatively stagnant genre than the celebrity musical biopic. Seriously, even the comic book movies will produce the…
The cinema of Matthew Vaughn could quite possibly be the most insufferable currently being financed by Hollywood. Say what you will about the MCU —…
“Like all history,” says an updated Damian (Jaquel Spivey) to the refreshed Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) and Janis (Auliʻi Cravalho), “this story is emotionally layered…
It’s widely understood that most action movies have a somewhat reactionary bent to them — shoot first and ask questions later is both the guiding…
With only two feature films under his belt, writer-director Jeymes Samuel seems to have found a particular niche; specifically tackling well-wore genre fare dominated by…
The entire notion of turning The Color Purple into a musical has always felt a little unseemly. Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning novel, the book…
Someday, now that it’s all over, someone’s going to write a big fat tell-all about just what exactly happened to the DCEU, a project with…
More than almost any other director, the methods of Michael Mann’s filmmaking have always matched its meanings, and his characters are defined by their attempts…
Discussing Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, a dramatization of the lives of the Von Erich clan whose importance to professional wrestling has stretched across decades and multiple generations, in any great…
We live in cynical, hyperconnected times, and one remedy we rely on our cultural products to deliver now and again is genuine, unabashed sincerity. Feel-good…
Ridley Scott is 85 years old and has directed, among other things, four feature films in the last five years, one of which was heavily…
The art of adaptation precludes mere transcription, most particularly where the written word is translated to a visual medium like film. Nowhere is the canvas…
Consider the fortunes of Taika Waititi in just the last five years. Briefly heralded as one of the more exciting voices in pop filmmaking —…
Much has been said about the erosion of the Marvel Studios cinematic enterprise. Most recently, Variety published a feature depicting a media giant in crisis.…
Meg Ryan is arguably nothing less than one of the all-time great romantic leading ladies, having earned the accolades with a trio of the defining…
Sofia Coppola has been chronicling the private spaces and inner lives of young women for her entire career and her new film Priscilla — an…
Who owns America? The most cynical answer is likely the correct one: the highest bidders, the ones most willing to relinquish from themselves the Christian…
Filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to follow in the cloven hoof-steps of 1973’s zeitgeist-exploding The Exorcist almost since it was released, and,…
Saw X marks the tenth installment in the long-running horror franchise, as well as the third soft reboot in just six short years. Yet what…
Setting aside the relative quality of the movie itself, Gareth Edwards’ tech-heavy sci-fi epic The Creator is notable at the very least for not being…