What is Cinema?: Breaking Down Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel
What are movies? What makes one movie “cinema” and another a “theme park ride”? These clickbait questions have been on everyone’s mind lately. Martin Scorcese...
What are movies? What makes one movie “cinema” and another a “theme park ride”? These clickbait questions have been on everyone’s mind lately. Martin Scorcese...
The Perfection reportedly received rave reviews at its screening at Fantastic Fest and was described as being both “elegant” and “terrifying.” Such acclaims naturally piqued...
Helen Mirren just followed a possible trend of hating on streaming services. After director Steven Spielberg said Netflix movies shouldn’t be allowed to compete for...
For everyone who dreams of making it in Hollywood, only a small handful will see their dreams become reality. Among that small handful, an ever-smaller...
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once said, “…movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” That movies make us care about people and situations we...
Nothing makes someone of my generation feel more out of touch than being presented with a topic that “everyone was talking about.” And we’ve never...
Rain Man was first released in December of 1988. To say people were more ignorant about autism back then would be a vast understatement. In...
As a lifelong Rocky fan, it’s always an exciting time when a new film in the franchise is set to debut. The pressure is high...
Now that we’ve emerged from our respective Thanksgiving food comas, and braved Black Friday, our brains shift over to the winter setting. As the Holiday...
These short films were featured at the Denver Film Festival from October 31st to November 11th. This is the fourth article in our series covering...
London Fields is based on the 1989 novel by Martin Amis and — after being shot in 2014 — has spent the past five years...
These short films will be playing at the Denver Film Festival from October 31st to November 11th. Head over to the DFF’s website to purchase your tickets!...
The movie version of The Wiz was released October 24, 1978. I was released in December of the same year. So, you could say we’ve...
Phil Hartman was a truly multi-talented entertainer, perhaps best known for his work on television. After all, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, and NewsRadio are...
This article pitting Singin’ in the Rain vs. It’s a Wonderful in the Best vs. the Best series was originally published on reelreader.com, a great website...
With the release of White Boy Rick this week and roles in two other movies this month, it brings a total of eight movies already...
In recent years, August has been a wasteland of sorts, caving in on itself after a plethora of blockbusters have sopped all of the money...
July marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg’s World War II Opus. This movie holds a special significance for...
This is Part 2 of my mini reviews from the Melbourne International Film Festival. If you missed Part 1, read it here. Let’s jump right...
Well, this article is probably long overdue. That’s what happens when life gets in the way — it has a funny way of doing that...
The crime/gangster sub-genre contains in itself an anachronistic library of classically defining workings. Historically, the genre seemed to have generally trickled down in relevance, peeking...
As far back as I can remember I’ve enjoyed watching movie musicals from what they call the golden age of Hollywood. Some particular favorites of...
Netflix will have hits and misses in its quest to master the process of providing quality original content. As Calibre (2018), Sunday’s Illness (2018) and...
In July, Amazon revealed the first concrete information about it’s upcoming Prime Original The Lord of The Rings prequel. They announced the show runners to be Godzilla vs....
In his review of BlackKklansman (2018), starring John David Washington and Adam Driver, Collin Willis notes that recent films Get Out (2107) and Sorry to...
Traditionally, when people think about going to the movies they think of groups of people or a couple on a date. Rarely — or never...
Puzzle (2018) might be a rare gem. A foreign-born story that successfully migrates in to the U.S. One of the least tapped sources for American...
The late great George A. Romero is mostly known for his Dead Series, particularly the first three, starting from the black/white shocker Night of the Living...
Calibre (2018) follows the fate of vacationing hunters, and arrives this summer amid a steady flow of independent films on the festival circuit that find their...
Adam McKay’s Step Brothers (2008), like a fine Catalina Wine Mixer, gets better with age. Therefore, my way to celebrate its 10-year anniversary is to suggest...
Well, I did it. I drove to a Goodwill donation center a few days ago, and dropped off the majority of my Woody Allen DVD...
Tom Hardy. What exactly do we think of him? Well, love him or hate him (and evidently, not many seem to dislike him), and without...
Many will have anticipated the release of this comedy/drama about an absent father trying to reconnect with his young son by passing down his love...
You may not have heard the name Thomasin McKenzie but it won’t be long before you are seeing her everywhere. McKenzie’s performance in Leave No Trace...
Andres Muschietti’s record-breaking It (2017) had an impressive impact on audiences and critics just less than a year ago. Arguably so, the Stephen King adaptation...
Before the review officially begins, I must offer this advice: For the love of everything we hold dear, if you watch this film on Netflix,...
Arriving without fanfare on Netflix, Ramón Salazar’s La Enfermedad del Domingo (Sunday’s Illness) reveals itself to be an exquisite treasure not to be missed. Elegantly rendered, and realized...
It seems like no matter how clean-cut an actor or actress is, they end up tarnishing their image somehow (except for my boy Tom Hanks)....
Movies made during Hollywood’s Golden Age weren’t always kind to the LGBT community. As little more than a covert group of sexual deviants, LGBT people...
Netflix continues their weekly promise of putting out new movie content to accustom to people’s growing lack of interest in going out to the cinema....