There’s something about this movie that bothers me. It’s not a flaw per se, nor an issue that reveals some kind of rot or wrongheadedness…
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is proof that we do not know how to appraise movies. We know only how to uncritically hype and celebrate the…
In its silent moments Hostiles achieves great beauty. In sequences where caravans traverse fresh, untainted frontier country with the sun glistening the terrain, where a…
Chronology is overrated. The Godfather Saga is an official TV special produced by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Barry Malkin. It smashes together scenes…
I was wrong. I have spent my entire life being wrong about everything. Wrong on movies, wrong on politics, wrong on life; my twelve steps…
It’s poetry that I saw Logan Lucky shortly after seeing Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Both are cinematic odd ducks – works of sly populism that…
I once heard it argued that Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar only work as a duo because Vaughn satirizes Millar the way Paul Verhoeven satirizes…
It jumped the shark years ago and became a Flea Bottom dweller’s Tolkien/Meyer. That’s why Season 7 exists as it is. A lot of internet…
To what extent can the law’s ultimate body and voice be exempt from its own rules? We may have to wait for the next movie…
Live By Night has all of the pieces to be something exceptional. It has a proven director and writer in Ben Affleck, a stellar cast,…