A Trip to Blockbuster: Neighbors
[I’m attempting to see as many big-budget Hollywood films as I can this summer, and writing about them as soon as I’ve had a month or so to reflect.] The […]
[I’m attempting to see as many big-budget Hollywood films as I can this summer, and writing about them as soon as I’ve had a month or so to reflect.] The […]
[I’m attempting to see as many big-budget Hollywood movies as I can this summer, and writing about them as soon as I’ve had a month or so to reflect. Spoilers follow, […]
This week, with a month of perspective and a lack of deadlines to our benefit, we take a nostalgic look back at the wild, transcendent, moving, ultimately unforgettable year that […]
Two years ago, Nicolas Winding Refn came out of nowhere with a little indie movie called Drive. While ‘an action movie starring Ryan Gosling’ wasn’t necessarily something to get excited […]
Leviathan, the new experimental documentary from Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, is a chronicle of the commercial fishing industry set somewhere in the North Atlantic. Completely immersive, the film literally […]
[Editor’s Note: The following contains some spoilers for Frances Ha and No]. Chile, 1988. The future of a nation rests on a referendum with a shockingly simple choice. “Yes,” a vote to retain President […]
During my four years of studying film at Ithaca College, I was subjected to more student films than one human being should ever have to endure–picture the brainwashing scene from […]
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers follow for Upstream Color and To the Wonder]. Lots of films are surprising. That can mean a known actor playing radically against type, a Shyamalan-esque twist ending, or the brazenly explicit […]
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers follow for Before Midnight and The Place Beyond the Pines]. Even your most personal experiences can be universal. Richard Linklater’s career-defining trilogy accepts that notion as fact, parlaying a simple romantic […]
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers follow for both Spring Breakers and Only the Young]. It’s oddly fitting that a film which plunges its stunt-cast Disney Channel starlets into a nonstop, hedonistic, drug-orgy nightmare would turn out […]